Problems Continue while trying to set up a TOR Private Relay

[Scott Bennett]

     On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:44:18 -0400 Andrew Lewman <andrew at torproject.org>
wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:04:38 -0700
>Jim Julian <j.a.julian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is an update of a message sent July 4th.  A quick quote from the
>> original message:
>
>Since you're all Mac, it's easy.  Enable UPNP on the Airport. Tell
>Vidalia to auto-configure it.  All your port forwarding and such is
>done. 
>
>Your Mac has its own firewall that needs to allow tor and
>vidalia to talk on various ports (9001, 9030).  When you start up
>Vidalia, Finder will prompt you for "Do you want to allow connections
>to tor?" Click yes.  It may ask you again for Vidalia. Click yes.
>
>In theory, that's it.  I just setup the same scenario on my testing Mac
>and it worked just like that.
>
     Really?  Is Vidalia really able to a) determine the public IP address
of the router, then b) configure correctly the Address and ORListenAddress
statements in torrc, then c) add an RDR to the router's configuration to
forward packets addressed to the ORPort at the public IP address on to
10.0.1.3:9001?  And likewise for DirPort and DirListenAddress?  If so,
that's terrific!  If not, then the OP needs to go back and read the tor
man page, paying special attention to the Address, ORPort, ORListenAddress,
DirPort, and DirListenAddress statement descriptions, as well as reading
up on how to configure RDRs on his router.
     On another note, I don't have any real exposure to Mac OS X, so if
someone could tell me which packet filter (e.g., ipf, ipfw, pf) underlies
the fancy firewall GUI stuff in OS X, I'd be grateful.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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