[tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[Kurt Besig]

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On 12/3/2015 7:04 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
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>> On 3 Dec 2015, at 09:44, Kurt Besig <kbesig at socal.rr.com 
>> <mailto:kbesig at socal.rr.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> After setting up Tor and tor-arm on the VPS I'm not able to
>> connect with this error: unable to reconnect (connection refused.
>> Is the ControlPort Enabled?) I've edited ~/home/.arm/torrc and
>> /etc/tor/torrc un-commenting the ControlPort 9052 and all the
>> other typical ports, etc..
> 
> I don't have enough information to be sure what's going on:
> 
> What control port is tor actually connected to? (Try "lsof -p
> <PID>" or "netstat")
> 
> Can "telnet" or "nc" connect to the port?
> 
> Does your VPS provider block connections from localhost to
> localhost by default? (This is an unusual config, that may be why
> the advice you received didn't help.)
> 
> What else have your tried?
> 
>> Obviously I'm not able to forward or enable ports on the VPS, so
>> do I need to ask the admin to make some changes?
> 
> Possibly. Some VPSs let you modify the firewall settings yourself.
> 
> Tim
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Thank you Tim for an intelligent response, I'll look into your
suggestions.
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