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

[Joel Hobson]

On 15/05/2011 1:45 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote:
> On 5/11/11 10:04 PM, joel hobson wrote:
>> 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.
>> 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
> The :5150 part for all three DirServer lines looks wrong.  Every
> directory needs its own Dir port.  Maybe assign Dir ports 6151 to 6153
> to your directories, both in the DirPort and in the DirServer lines.
>
> Best,
> Karsten
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Why do they need different Dir ports if they're running on separate 
machines?

Joel