Re: [tor-talk] Best Tool to connect to my Private TOR Network

[Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Ted Smith <tedks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 10:58 -0400, Andrew Lewman wrote:
>> On Friday, October 07, 2011 10:35:31 Faisal Rehman wrote:
>> > Okay I will run some more directory authorities but how these will be tied
>> > with each other via relays, sorry for asking very basic questions but I am
>> > unable to find help for it over the internet. So I hope with your help I
>> > will setup my own private tor network soon and launch it. Please also tell
>> > me about tor client.
>>
>> Maybe someone else can help out here, but everything you need to know is at
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFAQ#HowdoIsetupmyownprivateTornetwork.
>> There are a number of lines where it starts off with "for each", this means you
>> need to do these steps multiple times, once for each directory authority, once
>> for each relay, and once for each tor client.
>>
>> For a while there were people working on a script to automate these steps, I
>> don't know what happened to the script nor their progress.
>>
>
> I'm a researcher who just went through that wiki section to set up my
> own (small) private Tor network, and would be very interested in that
> script. If the people Andrew is talking about are on this mailing list,
> could you please chime in and let us all know how you're doing? I'm sure
> I'm not alone in wanting to see something like this exist.


These days I use chutney
(https://gitweb.torproject.org/nickm/chutney.git) for templating a
bunch of Tor instances and launching them locally.  It's more suited
for testing Tor changes than for running a production network on a
bunch of machines, but you could probably adapt it to do what you need
if you know a little python and are willing to get your hands dirty.

It is still in an underdocumented and basically unsupported state: "if
it breaks, you can keep both pieces" as they say.

See also Sebastian's privnet scripts at
https://gitweb.torproject.org/sebastian/tor-utils.git ; they might be
better if you prefer sh. Same disclaimers apply.

yrs,
-- 
Nick
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