[tor-relays] ORPort NoListen

[Sina Eetezadi]

The thing is, with this setup arm and also vidalia reported "can not
bind 0.0.0.0:443. Thats why I went back to the old setting.
For the moment I do not really care, because it works, I was just wondering.

My router forwards 443 to 192.168.1.12:9001. So you suggest I put
"192.168.1.12" instead of "0.0.0.0.", right?


> Sorry there is an error in my example, forgot the NoAdvertise attribute
> didn't notice till the mail came back through the list, should have been
> 
> DirPort 80 NoListen
> DirPort 127.0.0.1:9030 NoAdvertise
> 
> Other than that the rest all should work as I suggested either specify the actual address your router is set to forward to or specify only the port.
> 
> On 10/03/13 17:20, Matt Joyce wrote:
>> There is no need to actually write out the IPv4 unspecified address in
>> the config file (0.0.0.0), all you need to do is just put:
>>
>> ORPort 9001 NoAdvertise
>>
>> Admittedly I have not actually tried it with ORPort personally but I
>> have had that configuration on one of my relays in the past for DirPort
>> to enable tor to advertise directory on 80 which was already assigned to
>> apache2, then apache simply reverse proxied requests for /tor/* to tor
>> on localhost 9030.  However, while you can do the above to listen on any
>> address there is no need to do so, I would instead specify the address
>> and port you have set in the DNAT rule on your router.  Same when I had
>> the reverse proxy setup I simply had it set like:
>>
>> DirPort 80 NoListen
>> DirPort 127.0.0.1:9030
>>
>> Course in your case it wont be 127.0.0.1 because it is coming in from
>> your external router not another server on the local machine.
>>
>> On 10/03/13 16:18, Sina Eetezadi wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I want to have port 443 advertised but listen on port 9001. My router
>>> then forwards 443->9001 to the machine tor is running on.
>>>
>>> It works with this:
>>> ORport 433
>>> ORListenAddress 0.0.0.0:9001
>>>
>>> However I thought this is deprecated and I rather use:
>>>
>>> ORport 443 NoListen
>>> ORPort 0.0.0.0:9001 NoAdvertise
>>>
>>> The latter however does not seem to work. Arm for example still errors
>>> "binding failed" and I see no incoming connections.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> SE
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