Hello everyone, I am new to this forum - so just very quickly, this about me : I have been a GNU-Linux-Debian user since 2005. I now use Debian 7/wheezy with TBB in its latest version. The reason that makes me get in touch with you is that I am pretty desperate and I hope somebody can help me. (As my problem is most probably connected to my telephone and internet service provider in France, it might be that somebody from France reading these lines could be more likely to help me). Until last November I was using a DartyBox. With that, everything worked all right. As I have been a user of TBB for quite some time, I wished to set up a relay on my computer, and, as Nicolas (previously from help-fr) advised me, I installed the tor package from Debian, had it configured, and my tor relay obviously worked. Then my previous telephone and internet service provider DartyBox wanted to get rid of its clients, and I subscribed to become a customer of BouyguesBox. Unfortunately whereas I haven't changed anything to the configuration of my computer, my tor relay doesn't work any more! As other programs seem no longer to function (e.g. ekiga, jitsi-meet through chromium), I suspect that there is a problem with the settings of the firewall on the BouyguesBox that will not allow the relay to get in touch with the outside world...? When "the firewall contains no rule", "as a standard settings the box blocks all unwanted traffic", says the BouguesBox. However that's also what the DartyBox said in the past, but that one did let through enough traffic in order for me to be able to take part in a Jitsi.meet conference ! So I don't really understand what is missing or lacking with the present BouyguesBox. Does anyone among those of you based in France think that they could make any suggestions as to how I could solve this problem? Especially which configuration of the firewall I should try and how to design, i.e. right, the rules governing the firewall. Thank you very much in advance for your support. ludo0565
Hu ludo0565, On 05/08/2016 11:06 PM, ludo0565@dbmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately whereas I haven't changed anything to the configuration of my computer, my tor relay doesn't work any more!
It sounds like you exchanged the router. By default, the local computers are not directly exposed to the Internet: the box that connects to the Internet filters incoming requests. Also, the router cannot know by itself which computer inside the local network is the "target" computer for new incoming connections -- all of them share one public IP address. Most routers allow outgoing traffic just fine, and keep track of where to forward replies to, but a Tor relay needs to receive "new" incoming connections. For this, you need to configure your router to do "port forwarding": one port, the port you configured your Tor relay to listen on, needs to be forwarded to the local IP address. You would usually do this via the admin web interface. All of them are a bit different, you need to look for a guide for your model. http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm has a lot of them listed. Hope this helps! -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/
Hey, As said Moritz, you can verify the ORPort you set up in the torrc config file, is opened in your router config, and forwarded to your Tor server internal LAN IP. + When you start Tor service in your Debian, you will have some logs to verify if it's ok, and may be the problem will be showned : tail -f /var/log/tor/notices.log --> ctrl-c to terminate the live log view. --> if in your /etc/tor/torrc file, the logs are set up to : Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log + Verify in the torrc file, may be your previous WAN IP has stay : Address noname.example.com (your previous WAN IP address) --> you can comment this with #, it's usually automatically working nice. to: #Address noname.example.com Hope this helps. Le 08/05/2016 23:06, ludo0565@dbmail.com a écrit :
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