[tor-relays] Difficulties in running a private Tor network

[joel hobson]

Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask for help with this problem.

I'm working as a research assistant at a university for the summer,
and my project requires me to set up a private Tor network.

I'm attempting to run 3 dirservers on three different linux/unix
machines. Most of the time, the dirservers upload their signatures to
one another as they're supposed to, but I still have problems after
that. I'll usually get messages like "Received http status code 404
("Not found") from server 'IP:PORT' while fetching
"/tor/status-vote/consensus-signatures.z"" (the 404s IP:PORT are
always the same) or "[notice] While fetching directory info, no
running dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 5)". Two of
the dirservers give me messages saying "[warn] Configured authority
type does not match authority type in DirServer list. Adjusting. (4 v
6)" when I start them up.

I have little idea of what any of these errors mean, and no idea of
how to fix them. My torrc files are mostly the same for each server,
and I've pasted one below. I hope someone here can help me figure this
out.

Thanks,

Joel


TestingTorNetwork 1
DirServer dir1 v3ident=2D50FCA97045D078CD22E9092C9CF3E300084B87
orport=5151 x.x.x.x:5150 FD65 3AE1 4133 31A9 20DF 8220 1F6F 8DF7 268F
F238
DirServer dir2 v3ident=EAC28AB68522174442AA214DC60C625675B2D1E9
orport=5152 y.y.y.y:5150 95B9 79E9 4A37 161C EFCC EE13 E7C5 D7EA EB76
B695
DirServer dir3 v3ident=24BD756B7660827D0507319A87DD16F31250A29C
orport=5153 z.z.z.z:5150 23D5 E382 86E6 1118 48E9 C848 2ECE B702 23EA
A0E8

DataDirectory .
ORPort 5152
SocksPort 0
Address y.y.y.y

DirPort 5150
V3AuthoritativeDirectory 1
AuthoritativeDirectory 1

ContactInfo test at test.test

ExitPolicy accept *:*

AllowSingleHopExits 1
ExcludeSingleHopRelays 0