Re: [or-talk] tor server behind smoothwall

[Rouslan Nabioullin <nabioullinr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks so much for the tip!!

 

I realized that I could just put the name of my dyndns.org account into the adress of vidalia (as you stated about DNS not affected), and it now says Tor can reach the ports. :)

 

-Rouslan N.

Sam Creasey <sammy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Rouslan Nabioullin wrote:
>
> > I recently switched to a smoothwall firewall (info: www.smoothwall.org) 
> > and for some reason my Tor server ports could not be accessed behind the 
> > green interface.
>
>
> > The issue is definetely not port forwarding because I run web\ftp 
> > servers behind it with no problem.
>
> > Does anyone know a solution? Smoothwall firewalls have very strong 
> > protection and might be blocking Tor in some way.
>
> I'm
>  just guessing here, as I don't run my Tor server behind an external 
> firewall, but... If the smoothwall, like some firewalls, is doing some 
> sort of NAT out the outgoing IP address, you may be adveritsing an 
> incorrect IP address for your server. This wouldn't be as likely to 
> affect WWW servers, where you publish the address yourself (e.g. through 
> DNS) as it would be for Tor, which publishes it's own address.
>
> I'd take a look at the Address line in your torrc, which may need to 
> reflect the address of the smoothwall, rather than the internal address 
> of your machine.
>
> Again, this is just a guess, your configuration my be completely 
> different.
>
> Good luck... :)
>
> -- Sam

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