On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:25:15AM +0530, abhiram wrote:
I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are there better ways of handing this?
One thing that puzzled me was that when I first setup my relay it was unable to find the external address of my connection and its log files kept complaining that:
"If x.x.x.x:9030 is not your correct IP address and directory port, please check your relay's configuration"
What program gave that log message? That isn't a log message in Tor. Maybe Vidalia? Unless you're paraphrasing?
Obviously it wasn't my ip address, when I looked it up it was from another country. So my question is why is my relay advertising this specific address?
What operating system, what Tor version, and how did you install it?
I wonder if your /etc/hosts file has a stale address in it, so Tor doesn't try to guess because your computer has already set its IP address (even though it's wrong)?
--Roger