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

[joel hobson]

I had a chat with the system administrator today - it looks like my
problems were firewall related (oddly, opening just the ports didn't
work). Regardless, thanks for the help.

Joel

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Karsten Loesing
<karsten.loesing at gmx.net> wrote:
> On 5/16/11 2:10 PM, Joel Hobson wrote:
>> On 15/05/2011 1:45 PM, Karsten Loesing wrote:
>>>> 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?
>
> Ah, they don't.  I was confused by your different OR ports here.
>
> In general, I find it easier to run a small private Tor network on a
> single machine.
>
> Best,
> Karsten
>