On 11 Mar (19:16:50), s7r wrote: > On 3/10/2021 5:31 PM, William Kane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > manually specify IP and port, and set the IPv4Only flag for both > > ORPort and DirPort. > > > > Reference: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en > > > > William > > > > I think he has a dynamic IP address which is why, according to pasted torrc, > the used config is: > > `Address Address my.dynamic.dns.url` > > This is a perfectly normal and accepted use-case. I think this is why it > complained about not being able to find an IPv6 address, because it was > resolving a hostname instead of parsing an IP address and most probably it > did not find any AAAA record. > > Anyway, IPv4Only in the ORPort line is the right config for this use-case > (where you don't have any IPv6 thus don't want to use IPv6 auto-discovery), > as David said, most annoying bugs regarding IPv6 auto-discovery were fixed. > So the suggestion to use IPv4Only in torrc line is not a workaround a bug or > misbehavior or something, it is a corrected configuration parameter (as per > manual instructs) and should stay like this even in 0.4.5.7 of course. > > I only find this log message unclear: > > [notice] Unable to find IPv6 address for ORPort 9001. You might want to > specify IPv6Only to it or set an explicit address or set Address. > > I think it means "... You might want to specify *IPv4Only* to it or set it > to an explicit address or set configure Address." Oops.. this fell off my radar, mis-placed in my Inbox :( Yes but also this was fixed in 0.4.5.7 where we flip the "IPv*Only" option so in that case it should have read "IPv4Only". David -- XV9G5n2Z8S7JqTM4GHU9eKrLUI9POwB5m0+OohPUEsM=
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