Dear all,
I have the following problem: My VPS-Hoster has deleted my server. Now I reinstalled tor on fresh Debian 9 minimal in version 0.3.4.8 (as before). I also restored my keys from /var/lib/tor/keys and set the datadir in torrc to /var/lib/tor
When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint. The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had been created. Now the server is listed 3 times in the relaysearch and my node is known as “new” node instead of getting the old fingerprint and the old flags/status.
Who can assist me in how to do the restore of the fingerprint and how to correct the relaysearch?!
Best regards from Germany Max
This happened to me as well this week. I copied over the torrc and keys directory; I thought that was all I needed. But I got a new fingerprint, so the relay is seen as new. Running Tor 0.3.4.8 on freeBSD.
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, October 26, 2018 6:49 PM, node47@torsrv.de wrote:
Dear all,
I have the following problem: My VPS-Hoster has deleted my server. Now I reinstalled tor on fresh Debian 9 minimal in version 0.3.4.8 (as before). I also restored my keys from /var/lib/tor/keys and set the datadir in torrc to /var/lib/tor
When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint. The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had been created. Now the server is listed 3 times in the relaysearch and my node is known as “new” node instead of getting the old fingerprint and the old flags/status.
Who can assist me in how to do the restore of the fingerprint and how to correct the relaysearch?!
Best regards from Germany Max
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It happened to me recently as well I (a similar situation) I had to switch my relay over to a new OS, I had copied the fingerprint over but despite the fact that I had done this, my relay was still assigned a new identity (which is why I am running a bridge now).
From: torix@protonmail.com Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 6:57 PM To: tor-relays@lists.torproject.org Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Restore tor exit node
This happened to me as well this week. I copied over the torrc and keys directory; I thought that was all I needed. But I got a new fingerprint, so the relay is seen as new. Running Tor 0.3.4.8 on freeBSD.
--Torix
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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, October 26, 2018 6:49 PM, node47@torsrv.de wrote:
Dear all,
I have the following problem: My VPS-Hoster has deleted my server. Now I reinstalled tor on fresh Debian 9 minimal in version 0.3.4.8 (as before). I also restored my keys from /var/lib/tor/keys and set the datadir in torrc to /var/lib/tor
When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint. The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had been created. Now the server is listed 3 times in the relaysearch and my node is known as “new” node instead of getting the old fingerprint and the old flags/status.
Who can assist me in how to do the restore of the fingerprint and how to correct the relaysearch?!
Best regards from Germany Max
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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On Friday, October 26, 2018 6:49 PM, node47@torsrv.de wrote:
When I started the tor-service a new ed25519_signing_cert and ed25519_signing_secret_key were generated as well as a new fingerprint. The secret_* files still have the old timestamp but new fingerprint had been created.
Am 27.10.2018 um 03:56 schrieb torix@protonmail.com:
This happened to me as well this week. I copied over the torrc and keys directory; I thought that was all I needed. But I got a new fingerprint, so the relay is seen as new. Running Tor 0.3.4.8 on freeBSD.
Those files were 'copied' cp-ish ? Copy not cares for ownerships. Tor generates files if tor can not find or can access them. Your original files might be overwritten now.
On Freebsd it should be like: # ls -alo /var/db/tor -rw------- 1 _tor _tor - date/time fingerprint ... more files ... drwx------ 2 _tor _tor - date/time keys # ls -alo /var/db/tor/keys/ -rw------- 1 _tor _tor - date/time secret_onion_key ... more files ...
chown can heal it: # chown -R _tor:_tor /var/db/tor # chown -R _tor:_tor /var/db/tor/keys
I hope I got your points. Please check before you type, it's your world.
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