I can only be of so much help compared to many of the others on this
list but I'll give it a shot as I am posting as it.
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Geoff Down <downie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble starting up a Tor relay.
Once I set up port forwarding (I've tried to set it up for TCP and
UDP),
should I be able to
Tor only operates in TCP, you don't need to set yourself up UDP.
a) Ping myself from a looking-glass service
b) Traceroute myself from a looking glass ?
At the moment neither of these work.
I get 'cannot confirm you can be seen from the outside world' errors.
I'm on a dynamic IP, Mac OSX, I haven't changed any of the defaults
from the
Vidalia bundle.
the logs say
'Nov 02 04:35:41.569 [Notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9001'
It probably shouldn't be listening on 0.0.0.0. localhost:9001 or
127.0.0.1:9001 are normal unless OS X is different from Windows &
Linux (sorry, not real familiar with Macs).
Changing that may be enough. It would mean editing your torrc file so
the ORListenAddress line is something like
ORListenAddress localhost:9001
-or--not both-
ORListenAddress 127.0.0.1:9001
Also, your ORPort line (default: ORPort 9001) must match the above
lines. E.g., if
ORPort 2394
then
ORListenAddress localhost:2394
Thanks,
downie
Hopefully this helps. If not, it is possible your port forwarding is
setup incorrectly. If your computer gets a different IP from your
router every so often it can cause problems (depending on the router).
I have found it is easier to make sure my Tor server has a static IP
*inside* my network. E.g., my Tor server always has the address
192.168.1.xxx. This is is easy to configure with most routers. If you
need to configure it this way and have not I or someone else on this
list ought to be able to help you.
Other questions for you to answer:
1) Whatever version or Tor/Vidalia are you running?
2) What router do you use?
-madjon