Exit Relay on Ubuntu 9.10 behind 2wire 2701HG-B firewall

K. N. fizyxnrd at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 12:59:29 UTC 2010


Thanks for the reply.
I have opened configured port forwarding, and I have verified that the
forwarding works using the PFportcheck tool.  It seems like the router is
forwarding the ports just fine, but still no confirmation.  Is there
something on the Tor/Ubuntu side that I am missing?

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Gitano <ran6oony7r9deku5 at gmx-topmail.de>wrote:

> K. N. wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to configure an Ubuntu 9.10 exit relay for Tor using Vidalia.
> > I'm on bellsouth/at&t networks, and I have successfully installed vidalia
> > and tor.
> > I've pointed tor to a user writable rc file rather than the root torrc
> > (~/.vidalia/torrc).
> > Everything gets up and running, but the relay (OR on 9000 and DIR on
> 9001)
> > is unable to verify that its ports are reachable
> > (Your server has not managed to confirm that its [ORPort/DirPort] is
> > reachable.
> > Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.)
> > I have specifically opened ports 9000-9001 on my router (a 2wire
> 2701HG-B).
> > I originally set ORPort to 443 and DirPort to 80, but this failed.  I
> > thought changing these to more standard values would fix this, but it has
> > not.
>
> You have to configure portforwarding for your Tor relay too:
>
>
> http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/2wire/2701HG-B/default.htm
>
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