[tor-relays] tor-relays Digest, Vol 18, Issue 1

Christian brightsidedarkside at t-online.de
Sun Jul 1 14:50:08 UTC 2012


Hi Roger,


> Who owns that socket file?
/var/run/tor/control is owned by debian-tor.


> Anything else in that other default config file?
The tor-service-defaults-torrc file contains:

DataDirectory /var/lib/tor
PidFile /var/run/tor/tor.pid
RunAsDaemon 1
User debian-tor

ControlSocket /var/run/tor/control
ControlSocketsGroupWritable 1

CookieAuthentication 1
CookieAuthFileGroupReadable 1
CookieAuthFile /var/run/tor/control.authcookie

Log notice file /var/log/tor/log


> > ORPort 443 NoListen
> > > ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 NoAdvertise
> > > ORPort [::]:9090 IPv6Only NoAdvertise
> > 
> > Is this ipv6 bind attempt the one causing problems?
> > 
> > 
The ipv6 bind attempt was a try to solve the problem.
Problem persists with and without ipv6 bind attempt.

Thanks a lot!

christian

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>    1. Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of the
>       listener ports (Christian)
>    2. Re: Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of
>       the listener ports (Roger Dingledine)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 06:14:19 +0200
> From: Christian <brightsidedarkside at t-online.de>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: [tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind
> 	one of the listener ports
> Message-ID: <1341116059.2767.42.camel at delusions.local>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> 
> Hi Nick, hi Jean,
> 
> thanks a lot for your fast reaction. I was at my parents' place for a
> week, that's why I'm a little late.
> 
> First, I tried port 9001, but in fact it is a port forwarding on the
> router from 443 to 9090.
> 
> Following, I post the terminal output when using the given torrc and the
> torrc file itself.
> Really, no logs are created, independent of the logging options.
> The socket unlink issue happens since I use tor and that's for a while
> now - it never affected functionality.
> Yes, I'm into psychiatric symptoms. A friend of mine uses monsters'
> names from films. ;-)
> 
> Again, thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Thankfully
> 
> christian 
> 
> ca at delusions:~$ sudo service tor restart
> [sudo] password for ca: 
>  * Stopping tor daemon...
> [ OK ] 
> * Starting tor
> daemon...                                                       
> Jul 01 06:00:13.321 [warn] Could not unlink /var/run/tor/control:
> Permission denied
> Jul 01 06:00:13.321 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to
> bind one of the listener ports.
> Jul 01 06:00:13.321 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
> 
> [fail]
> ca at delusions:~$ 
> 
> 
> 
> The torrc (complete to prevent me from confusing, but slightly spoiled
> by my mail client with line breaks - RunAsDeamon is set by another
> default config file):
> 
> 
> ## Configuration file for a typical Tor user
> ## Last updated 22 April 2012 for Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha.
> ## (may or may not work for much older or much newer versions of Tor.)
> ##
> ## Lines that begin with "## " try to explain what's going on. Lines
> ## that begin with just "#" are disabled commands: you can enable them
> ## by removing the "#" symbol.
> ##
> ## See 'man tor', or https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html,
> ## for more options you can use in this file.
> ##
> ## Tor will look for this file in various places based on your platform:
> ## https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#torrc
> 
> ## Tor opens a socks proxy on port 9050 by default -- even if you don't
> ## configure one below. Set "SocksPort 0" if you plan to run Tor only
> ## as a relay, and not make any local application connections yourself.
> #SocksPort 9050 # Default: Bind to localhost:9050 for local connections.
> #SocksPort 192.168.0.1:9100 # Bind to this adddress:port too.
> 
> ## Entry policies to allow/deny SOCKS requests based on IP address.
> ## First entry that matches wins. If no SocksPolicy is set, we accept
> ## all (and only) requests that reach a SocksPort. Untrusted users who
> ## can access your SocksPort may be able to learn about the connections
> ## you make.
> #SocksPolicy accept 192.168.0.0/16
> #SocksPolicy reject *
> 
> ## Logs go to stdout at level "notice" unless redirected by something
> ## else, like one of the below lines. You can have as many Log lines as
> ## you want.
> ##
> ## We advise using "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose
> ## may provide sensitive information to an attacker who obtains the
> logs.
> ##
> ## Send all messages of level 'notice' or higher
> to /var/log/tor/notices.log
> #Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
> ## Send every possible message to /var/log/tor/debug.log
> Log debug file /var/log/tor/debug.log
> ## Use the system log instead of Tor's logfiles
> #Log notice syslog
> ## To send all messages to stderr:
> #Log debug stderr
> 
> ## Uncomment this to start the process in the background... or use
> ## --runasdaemon 1 on the command line. This is ignored on Windows;
> ## see the FAQ entry if you want Tor to run as an NT service.
> #RunAsDaemon 1
> 
> ## The directory for keeping all the keys/etc. By default, we store
> ## things in $HOME/.tor on Unix, and in Application Data\tor on Windows.
> #DataDirectory /var/lib/tor
> 
> ## The port on which Tor will listen for local connections from Tor
> ## controller applications, as documented in control-spec.txt.
> #ControlPort 9051
> ## If you enable the controlport, be sure to enable one of these
> ## authentication methods, to prevent attackers from accessing it.
> #HashedControlPassword
> 16:872860B76453A77D60CA2BB8C1A7042072093276A3D701AD684053EC4C
> #CookieAuthentication 1
> 
> ############### This section is just for location-hidden services ###
> 
> ## Once you have configured a hidden service, you can look at the
> ## contents of the file ".../hidden_service/hostname" for the address
> ## to tell people.
> ##
> ## HiddenServicePort x y:z says to redirect requests on port x to the
> ## address y:z.
> 
> #HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/
> #HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
> 
> #HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/other_hidden_service/
> #HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:80
> #HiddenServicePort 22 127.0.0.1:22
> 
> ################ This section is just for relays #####################
> #
> ## See https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-relay for details.
> 
> ## Required: what port to advertise for incoming Tor connections.
> #ORPort 443
> ## If you want to listen on a port other than the one advertised in
> ## ORPort (e.g. to advertise 443 but bind to 9090), you can do it as
> ## follows.  You'll need to do ipchains or other port forwarding
> ## yourself to make this work.
> ORPort 443 NoListen
> ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 NoAdvertise
> ORPort [::]:9090 IPv6Only NoAdvertise
> 
> ## The IP address or full DNS name for incoming connections to your
> ## relay. Leave commented out and Tor will guess.
> #Address noname.example.com
> 
> ## If you have multiple network interfaces, you can specify one for
> ## outgoing traffic to use.
> # OutboundBindAddress 10.0.0.5
> 
> ## A handle for your relay, so people don't have to refer to it by key.
> Nickname BrightSideDarkSide
> 
> ## Define these to limit how much relayed traffic you will allow. Your
> ## own traffic is still unthrottled. Note that RelayBandwidthRate must
> ## be at least 20 KB.
> ## Note that units for these config options are bytes per second, not
> bits
> ## per second, and that prefixes are binary prefixes, i.e. 2^10, 2^20,
> etc.
> #RelayBandwidthRate 100 KB  # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)
> #RelayBandwidthBurst 200 KB # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps)
> 
> ## Use these to restrict the maximum traffic per day, week, or month.
> ## Note that this threshold applies separately to sent and received
> bytes,
> ## not to their sum: setting "4 GB" may allow up to 8 GB total before
> ## hibernating.
> ##
> ## Set a maximum of 4 gigabytes each way per period.
> #AccountingMax 4 GB
> ## Each period starts daily at midnight (AccountingMax is per day)
> #AccountingStart day 00:00
> ## Each period starts on the 3rd of the month at 15:00 (AccountingMax
> ## is per month)
> #AccountingStart month 3 15:00
> 
> ## Contact info to be published in the directory, so we can contact you
> ## if your relay is misconfigured or something else goes wrong. Google
> ## indexes this, so spammers might also collect it.
> ContactInfo Sides of the moon <brightsidedarkside AT t-online dot de>
> ## You might also include your PGP or GPG fingerprint if you have one:
> #ContactInfo 0xFFFFFFFF Random Person <nobody AT example dot com>
> 
> ## Uncomment this to mirror directory information for others. Please do
> ## if you have enough bandwidth.
> #DirPort 9030 # what port to advertise for directory connections
> ## If you want to listen on a port other than the one advertised in
> ## DirPort (e.g. to advertise 80 but bind to 9091), you can do it as
> ## follows.  below too. You'll need to do ipchains or other port
> ## forwarding yourself to make this work.
> #DirPort 80 NoListen
> #DirPort 127.0.0.1:9091 NoAdvertise
> ## Uncomment to return an arbitrary blob of html on your DirPort. Now
> you
> ## can explain what Tor is if anybody wonders why your IP address is
> ## contacting them. See contrib/tor-exit-notice.html in Tor's source
> ## distribution for a sample.
> #DirPortFrontPage /etc/tor/tor-exit-notice.html
> 
> ## Uncomment this if you run more than one Tor relay, and add the
> identity
> ## key fingerprint of each Tor relay you control, even if they're on
> ## different networks. You declare it here so Tor clients can avoid
> ## using more than one of your relays in a single circuit. See
> ## https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#MultipleRelays
> ## However, you should never include a bridge's fingerprint here, as it
> would
> ## break its concealability and potentionally reveal its IP/TCP address.
> #MyFamily $keyid,$keyid,...
> 
> ## A comma-separated list of exit policies. They're considered first
> ## to last, and the first match wins. If you want to _replace_
> ## the default exit policy, end this with either a reject *:* or an
> ## accept *:*. Otherwise, you're _augmenting_ (prepending to) the
> ## default exit policy. Leave commented to just use the default, which
> is
> ## described in the man page or at
> ## https://www.torproject.org/documentation.html
> ##
> ## Look at https://www.torproject.org/faq-abuse.html#TypicalAbuses
> ## for issues you might encounter if you use the default exit policy.
> ##
> ## If certain IPs and ports are blocked externally, e.g. by your
> firewall,
> ## you should update your exit policy to reflect this -- otherwise Tor
> ## users will be told that those destinations are down.
> ##
> ## For security, by default Tor rejects connections to private (local)
> ## networks, including to your public IP address. See the man page entry
> ## for ExitPolicyRejectPrivate if you want to allow "exit enclaving".
> ##
> #ExitPolicy accept *:6660-6667,reject *:* # allow irc ports but no more
> #ExitPolicy accept *:119 # accept nntp as well as default exit policy
> ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed
> 
> ## Bridge relays (or "bridges") are Tor relays that aren't listed in the
> ## main directory. Since there is no complete public list of them, even
> an
> ## ISP that filters connections to all the known Tor relays probably
> ## won't be able to block all the bridges. Also, websites won't treat
> you
> ## differently because they won't know you're running Tor. If you can
> ## be a real relay, please do; but if not, be a bridge!
> BridgeRelay 1
> ## By default, Tor will advertise your bridge to users through various
> ## mechanisms like https://bridges.torproject.org/. If you want to run
> ## a private bridge, for example because you'll give out your bridge
> ## address manually to your friends, uncomment this line:
> #PublishServerDescriptor 0
> 
> User debian-tor
> 
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> >    1. Re: Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of
> >       the listener ports (Nick Mathewson)
> >    2. Re: Failed to parse/validate config: failed to bind one of
> >       the listener ports (Jean Trolleur)
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> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:59:22 -0400
> > From: Nick Mathewson <nickm at freehaven.net>
> > To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to
> > 	bind one of the listener ports
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<CAKDKvuyeEBDEO6rrbqVQSZcOy_cbeuGWMX2gisUjjETk0VgJEw at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christian
> > <brightsidedarkside at t-online.de> wrote:
> > > Hi dear fellows,
> > >
> > > I'm sorry to use again this way of addressing my problem as in Vol 17,
> > > Issue 5. It will be the last time. Promise.
> > >
> > > I can't find any solution on the web.
> > > When starting tor, it always reads "Failed to parse/validate config:
> > > failed to bind one of the listener ports".
> > 
> > Hm. It really should be saying something more than that on startup;
> > there should be a message right before that about *why* it couldn't
> > parse or validate the ports.
> > 
> > I just tried the ORPort combination you listed there, and it seemed to
> > work out okay for me.  It might be easier to diagnose if you could
> > upload your entire torrc, and the entire output of starting Tor up to
> > the point where it says "failed to parse/validate config:"
> > 
> > hth,
> > -- 
> > Nick
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:18:42 -0500
> > From: Jean Trolleur <sigtstp at gmail.com>
> > To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> > Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to
> > 	bind one of the listener ports
> > Message-ID:
> > 	<CAPN5qOdaMr==8D-kTz01cAZDHrDXSGuh5T+3DVfscJLx8jLgZA at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > 
> > Try:
> > 
> > ORPort 443
> > ORListenAddress 0.0.0.0:9001
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Christian
> > <brightsidedarkside at t-online.de> wrote:
> > > Hi dear fellows,
> > >
> > > I'm sorry to use again this way of addressing my problem as in Vol 17,
> > > Issue 5. It will be the last time. Promise.
> > >
> > > I can't find any solution on the web.
> > > When starting tor, it always reads "Failed to parse/validate config:
> > > failed to bind one of the listener ports".
> > >
> > > Furthermore, there are only empty logfiles, independent of the
> > > configuration of the logs option "notice".
> > >
> > > Has anyone else this kind of problem?
> > >
> > > This is my ORPort section:
> > > ORPort 443 NoListen
> > > ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 NoAdvertise
> > >
> > > I even can't make a control port accessible for e.g. arm running on the
> > > same machine, although I didn't use it before.
> > >
> > > Client functionality is not working either. No connections through tor.
> > >
> > > Tor is configured as a bridge, my OS is Ubuntu lucid 10.04 and Tor's
> > > version is 2.3.17-beta-1~lucid+1.
> > >
> > > It just worked until the upgrade to the new version through torproject's
> > > repository.
> > >
> > > I really do have forwarded external port 443 to port 9090 on my machine.
> > >
> > > It nearly has me left in broken state dying.
> > >
> > > I checked for new requests concerning apparmor allowance, but there were
> > > only the ability to chown and access to /sys/devices/system/cpu/ which I
> > > granted both.
> > >
> > > I'm not so really competent with computers and therefore grateful for
> > > any help.
> > > Strange. No error logs, no function, no topic on the web..
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > christian
> > >
> > >
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 05:14:22 -0400
> From: Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Failed to parse/validate config: failed to
> 	bind one of the listener ports
> Message-ID: <20120701091422.GB8804 at moria.seul.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:14:19AM +0200, Christian wrote:
> > Really, no logs are created, independent of the logging options.
> 
> That's expected -- it's because logs are parsed in the same step as
> binding the sockets, and it never gets to the 'setting up the logs' part.
> 
> > The socket unlink issue happens since I use tor and that's for a while
> > now - it never affected functionality.
> 
> Who owns that socket file?
> 
> > The torrc (complete to prevent me from confusing, but slightly spoiled
> > by my mail client with line breaks - RunAsDeamon is set by another
> > default config file):
> 
> Anything else in that other default config file?
> 
> > ORPort 443 NoListen
> > ORPort 0.0.0.0:9090 NoAdvertise
> > ORPort [::]:9090 IPv6Only NoAdvertise
> 
> Is this ipv6 bind attempt the one causing problems?
> 
> --Roger
> 
> 
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