[tor-relays] help needed to setup a bridge on amazon and relay on PC

Sasikantha babu sasikanthbabu at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 24 06:49:42 UTC 2014


Hello,

Finally tor relay is up on PC. I had to add below rules to make it work (source:

http://www.tequilafish.com/2009/06/21/slicehost-setting-up-a-tor-relay-on-fedora-to-help-keep-iran-connected-iranelection/)

-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 9001 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT

Thanks for all help





On Wednesday, 24 December 2014 1:31 AM, Sasikantha babu <sasikanthbabu at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi,

Thanks for the help. On amazon cloud I'm able to setup bridge on port 8080. Not sure why port 443
and 9001 did not work.


ubuntu at ip-172-31-51-95:~$ tail -n10 /var/log/tor/log
Dec 23 19:55:26.000 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build circuits.
Dec 23 19:55:26.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network
Dec 23 19:55:26.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with first hop
Dec 23 19:55:27.000 [notice] Guessed our IP address as IP (source: IP).
Dec 23 19:55:27.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit
Dec 23 19:55:28.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like client functionality is working.
Dec 23 19:55:28.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done
Dec 23 19:55:28.000 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort IP:8080 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating success)
Dec 23 19:55:29.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
Dec 23 19:55:30.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.





On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 8:56 PM, Sebastian Urbach <sebastian at urbach.org> wrote:
Hi,

I will contact you via private mail and try to help.

-- 
Sincerely yours / Sincères salutations

Sebastian Urbach

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On December 23, 2014 4:03:24 PM Sasikantha babu <sasikanthbabu at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

>
> I've been trying to setup a bridge on amazon cloud and relay node on PC but 
> never succeeded in setting it up.  I always get an error "Your server 
> (IP:9001) has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable". 
>
> 1. My PC is behind netgear router and I had configured portforwarding 
> (portforwarding seems to work but tor-relay fails complains about
>    ORPort reachability). 2. Follow the steps 
> https://cloud.torproject.org/#get_started and created an instance on amazon 
> cloud but facing the ORPort reachability.
>
> Dec 23 14:19:37.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server
> Dec 23 14:19:40.000 [notice] We now have enough directory information to 
> build circuits.
> Dec 23 14:19:40.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 80%: Connecting to the Tor network
> Dec 23 14:19:40.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 85%: Finishing handshake with 
> first hop
> Dec 23 14:19:41.000 [notice] Guessed our IP address as ip (source: ip).
> Dec 23 14:19:41.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 90%: Establishing a Tor circuit
> Dec 23 14:19:42.000 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks 
> like client functionality is working.
> Dec 23 14:19:42.000 [notice] Bootstrapped 100%: Done
> Dec 23 14:19:42.000 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort IP:9001 is 
> reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages 
> indicating success)
> Dec 23 14:39:41.000 [warn] Your server (IP:9001) has not managed to confirm 
> that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, 
> /etc/hosts file, etc.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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