Re: Tor client not recognizing port forwarding

[Andrew Lewman <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday May 19 2010 13:00:30 Marcus Ilgner wrote:
> I'm currently trying to set up a Tor relay. 

Great.  Thanks for setting up a relay.

> Now although I have
> verified that connecting to that port/ip from an external host is
> working, it still reports in the log file:
> Your server (81.173.185.130:9001) has not managed to confirm that its
> ORPort is reachable
> A corresponding web search came up empty so I hope that maybe someone
> here can help me. Do I need to configure port forwarding for another
> port?

most likely, your local or gateway firewall needs to be configured.

> Maybe there's even some way to tell Tor to use UPNP to forward ports
> as required? If not, would you be interested in a patch which does
> this? (I just took a peek at the source of the Transmission BitTorrent
> client which does this and it seems be very straightforward to
> implement)

We have upnp in the vidalia graphical tor controller, but not in the core tor 
code itself.

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