[tor-qa] 2.4.17-beta-2-obfs-flash1 (obfuscated flash proxy) bundles

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Thu Oct 31 21:45:29 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:29:30PM +0200, Sherief Alaa wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:46 AM, David Fifield <[1]david at bamsoftware.com>
> wrote:
>     Because of the problem in the previous paragraph, this build isn't going
>     to be released except to testers. But since GNU/Linux and Mac OS X
>     should work, we are interested in getting some early feedback.
> 
>     The bundles are configured to start obfs2, obfs3, and obfs3_flashproxy
>     transports. obfs2 and obfs3 are the same as in previous releases and
>     don't need any special testing. If you want to test obfs3_flashproxy
>     specifically, you should comment out all the
>             Bridge obfs2
>             Bridge obfs3
>     lines, and leave the one line
>             Bridge obfs3_flashproxy
> 
> I did that and I also disabled the windows built in firewall but I am stuck at
> "Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with directory server."
> 
> Do I need to forward specific ports in my router?

Thank you for testing. Yes, you need to forward a port, by default port
9000. There are instructions for doing it at
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/FlashProxyHowto.

David Fifield


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