Re: Problem with dynamic IP

[zmj <zangmj@xxxxxxxxx>]

on your second question:
it's a default dir, it's like this:  C:\Documents and Settings\"YOUR USER NAME HERE"\Application Data\tor\keys

my user name is zmj, so my dir is:  C:\Documents and Settings\zmj\Application Data\tor\keys

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Geoff Down <downie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,
 the Tor FAQs mentions bugginess with how Tor detects the IP of a relay when it isn't fixed.
I think I have this problem - the logs show Tor changing the IP it advertises to the world for the ORPort even though my IP has not in fact changed:

Nov 04 03:47:29.242 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from xxx to yyy; rebuilding descriptor.
Nov 04 03:56:44.210 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
Nov 04 04:17:58.142 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from yyy to xxx; rebuilding descriptor.
Nov 04 04:19:05.460 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
Nov 04 04:19:37.005 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
Nov 04 04:38:19.808 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from xxx to yyy; rebuilding descriptor.
Nov 04 04:43:44.802 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.

Here yyy is the false IP - odd that it is supposedly reachable from the outside world.
The false IP is however on the right network, and could be one I had earlier in the day/week/month. Any idea how to stop this happening please? It's Tor 0.2.0.31 (r16744) MacOSX 10.3.9.
 Also, I'm advised to back up my relay's private key 'stored in "keys/secret_id_key" in your DataDirectory' . Where is that? I don't have a DataDirectory defined in the torrc.

Thanks,
downie