quick question about my bridge relay...

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

(I've redacted my IP address and relay name and fingerprint here.)

I've set up a bridge relay and it seems to work for a bit and then
stop routing traffic.  I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it or
something.

The box running it is behind a NAT and I've port-forwarded to the
Relay Port and Directory Port (I'm using the 0.2.2.22-alpha for OS X
Power PC via Vidalia).

Looking at the logs, I see this frequently:

Jan 31 08:54:39.925 [Info] resolve_my_address(): Guessed local
hostname 'foo.local' resolves to a private IP address (10.0.1.2).
Trying something else.
Jan 31 08:54:39.943 [Info] get_interface_address6(): connect() failed:
Invalid argument
Jan 31 08:54:39.947 [Info] resolve_my_address(): Could not get local
interface IP address. Too bad.
Jan 31 08:54:39.950 [Info] resolve_my_address(): Address
'tarantula.local' resolves to private IP address '10.0.1.2'. Tor
servers that use the default DirServers must have public IP addresses.

However, if I simply click on "Setup Relaying" in Vidalia control
panel and just click "OK" in the sharing pane (to not change
anything), it seems to start routing traffic again:

Jan 31 08:52:25.245 [Notice] Your Tor server's identity key
fingerprint is 'foo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Jan 31 08:52:25.248 [Info] configure_nameservers(): No change to
'/etc/resolv.conf'
...
Jan 31 08:52:36.232 [Info] connection_ap_make_link(): Making internal
anonymized tunnel to [scrubbed]:443 ...
Jan 31 08:52:36.235 [Info] onion_pick_cpath_exit(): Using requested
exit node 'Tonga'
Jan 31 08:52:36.239 [Info] circuit_send_next_onion_skin(): First hop:
finished sending CREATE cell to 'TolFuin'
Jan 31 08:52:36.242 [Info] connection_ap_make_link(): ... application
connection created and linked.
...

It goes along happily at least for a few minutes, but then goes back
to the first sequence above and doesn't seem to handle any more
traffic (until I click through the setup relaying pane in settings).

And at other times, it does seems to guess my public IP address
correctly after the first sequence I quote above:

...
Jan 31 08:52:25.238 [Info] router_pick_published_address(): Could not
determine our address locally. Checking if directory headers provide
any hints.
Jan 31 08:52:25.241 [Info] router_pick_published_address(): Success:
chose address 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'.

So, I guess I'm wondering how do I tell Tor what my public IP address
is?  (I maybe completely misunderstanding the problem here, of
course.)

best and thanks, Joe

-- 
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
ACCURATE Postdoctoral Research Associate
UC Berkeley School of Information
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
http://josephhall.org/
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