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

[Robert Ransom]

On Mon, 16 May 2011 08:10:46 -0400
Joel Hobson <hobs2820 at mylaurier.ca> wrote:

> 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.

> Why do they need different Dir ports if they're running on separate 
> machines?

They don't.

Try specifying the authorities' types in the DirServer lines.


Robert Ransom
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