[tor-relays] Faravahar messing with my IP address

Logforme m7527 at abc.se
Thu Oct 22 19:44:35 UTC 2015


Hello, thank you for your prompt reply.

My relay runs version 0.2.6.10.
I got version 0.2.7.3 on hold waiting for a good time to update. Do you
think updating could help the issue?

Best regards

On 2015-10-22 20:38, SiNA Rabbani wrote:
> Dear Relay Operator,
>
> I am the operator of Faravahar, It has been having some network issues,
> specifically very long latency. But this is the first time I hear of an issue like this.
>
> 154.35.32.5 is Faravahr's older IP addresses which was replaced with and 
> 154.35.175.225 is the new IP (current). 
>
> There are iptable rules forwarding the traffic from OLD IP to the new one
> for the clients that have not updated yet. 
>
> Are you running the latest version of tor software?
>
> I'll be sure to keep an eye on this email and open a ticket as needed.
>
> Thank you for reporting the issue and running a relay.
>
> All the best,
> Sina
>
>
> "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
>
> ----- On Oct 22, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Logforme m7527 at abc.se wrote:
>
>> I run the relay Logforme (855BC2DABE24C861CD887DB9B2E950424B49FC34)
>>
>> Saw this in yesterday's log file:
>> Oct 22 03:17:55.000 [notice] Our IP Address has changed from
>> 84.219.173.60 to 154.35.32.5; rebuilding descriptor (source:
>> 154.35.175.225).
>> Oct 22 03:17:55.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is
>> reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>> Oct 22 03:17:56.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
>> Oct 22 03:26:55.000 [notice] Our IP Address has changed from 154.35.32.5
>> to 84.219.173.60; rebuilding descriptor (source: 194.109.206.212).
>>
>> 84.219.173.60: <- My real IP address
>> 154.35.32.5: faravahar.rabbani.jp <- No idea
>> 154.35.175.225: faravahar.redteam.net <- Authority server
>> 194.109.206.212: tor.dizum.com <- Better authority server
>>
>> So if I read it right my relay asked the authority server Faravahar what
>> my IP address is and got the wrong answer. 9 minutes later my relay
>> asked another authority server and got the right answer. My relay show
>> an uptime starting from this time and if the relay did a full restart it
>> meant all the circuits got dropped? Inconvenient for users.
>>
>> My relay have "restarted" like this a few times the last weeks (only Tor
>> daemon "restarting", not the machine). Don't know if Faravahar is behind
>> the other "restarts". This time I just caught it in the log file before
>> it got archived.
>>
>> Is this a know issue with Faravahar? If so, should it be fixed?
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