Strange Problem Browsing Blocked Websites
Hello All, Today I have installed tor on my raspberry pi and also set it up as a relay. I can monitor tor traffic using arm so it means it is working. My SocksPort configuration is 9050, 192.168.1.187:9050 where 192.168.1.187 is internal ip of my raspberry pi.In order to anonymize my browsing traffic on my main windows PC, I configured Firefox to use my raspberry pi as proxy on port 9050. When I visit the page https://check.torproject.org/, it says my configuration is successful and I see different ip address. From that point I assume everything should work properly but if I try to browse web sites that are blocked in my country such as youtube it just does not connect. However if I use VPN I can see those blocked web sites. So could anyone please tell me what is wrong with my configuration? I'm realy confused... Thanks in advance!
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Ferdi GULER <ferdiguler@outlook.com> wrote:
In order to anonymize my browsing traffic on my main windows PC, I configured Firefox to use my raspberry pi as proxy on port 9050. When I visit the page https://check.torproject.org/, it says my configuration is successful and I see different ip address. From that point I assume everything should work properly but if I try to browse web sites that are blocked in my country such as youtube it just does not connect. However if I use VPN I can see those blocked web sites.
It is likely because the exit your client chose was blocked by either youtube or by someplace in its path to youtube. You may try 'signal NEWNYM' / 'new identity' controller function, or 'ExitNodes' configuration option as in the docs / search engine. Thanks for running a relay.
If I remember correctly, Firefox has a bug where it won't do DNS lookups over a SOCKS proxy. It will, however do DNS lookups through an HTTP proxy that supports it, such as Polipo. If you configure Polipo to act as an HTTP proxy that forwards to the Tor SOCKS proxy, and add Polipo to your Firefox config as an HTTP proxy (you can leave Tor's SOCKS proxy entry), this may resolve the issue your are seeing, assuming DNS blocking/filtering in your country. Bryan On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:21:48 +0000, Ferdi GULER <ferdiguler@outlook.com> wrote:
Hello All, Today I have installed tor on my raspberry pi and also set it up as a relay. I can monitor tor traffic using arm so it means it is working. My SocksPort configuration is 9050, 192.168.1.187:9050 where 192.168.1.187 is internal ip of my raspberry pi.In order to anonymize my browsing traffic on my main windows PC, I configured Firefox to use my raspberry pi as proxy on port 9050. When I visit the page https://check.torproject.org/, it says my configuration is successful and I see different ip address. From that point I assume everything should work properly but if I try to browse web sites that are blocked in my country such as youtube it just does not connect. However if I use VPN I can see those blocked web sites. So could anyone please tell me what is wrong with my configuration? I'm realy confused... Thanks in advance!
On 10 April 2014 01:01, Tor Relays at brwyatt.net <tor@brwyatt.net> wrote:
If I remember correctly, Firefox has a bug where it won't do DNS lookups over a SOCKS proxy. It will, however do DNS lookups through an HTTP proxy that supports it, such as Polipo. If you configure Polipo to act as an HTTP proxy that forwards to the Tor SOCKS proxy, and add Polipo to your Firefox config as an HTTP proxy (you can leave Tor's SOCKS proxy entry), this may resolve the issue your are seeing, assuming DNS blocking/filtering in your country.
Bryan
That's not a bug, it's firefox default behavior. To change this: 1- Go to about:config 2- Set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true Peace; Fynn. -- "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day"
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:20:51 -0300, Enrique Fynn <enriquefynn@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10 April 2014 01:01, Tor Relays at brwyatt.net <tor@brwyatt.net> wrote:
If I remember correctly, Firefox has a bug where it won't do DNS
lookups
over a SOCKS proxy. It will, however do DNS lookups through an HTTP proxy that supports it, such as Polipo. If you configure Polipo to act as an HTTP proxy that forwards to the Tor SOCKS proxy, and add Polipo to your Firefox config as an HTTP proxy (you can leave Tor's SOCKS proxy entry), this may resolve the issue your are seeing, assuming DNS blocking/filtering in your country.
Bryan
That's not a bug, it's firefox default behavior. To change this: 1- Go to about:config 2- Set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true
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I stand corrected. Thanks for catching that, that's a much easier solution to the same problem. Bryan
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