[tor-relays] Call for setting up new obfs4 bridges

Michael Gerstacker michael.gerstacker at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 19 16:06:52 UTC 2019


Hi,

i wanted to run my bridge on 443 too but i had the same problem on Raspbian
Buster with Tor 0.4.0.5
I asked Google but choosing a port above 1024 was the only thing that made
it working for me.

Am Fr., 19. Juli 2019 um 11:52 Uhr schrieb <dmz21 at ziggo.nl>:

> > On July 19, 2019 at 6:36 AM Ben Riley <blades1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I ran that command way back at the start. I'm
> > assuming I don't have to run it every time the machine reboots or
> updates?
> > I ran it again this morning and it made no difference.
> >
> > Ah logs, you say that like I know where those are :P
> > When I run sudo tail /var/log/tor/log - I get nothing.
> > I found the Logs app and run that to get all the system logs - way too
> much
> > stuff and I couldn't move it to here, so I found this command (Google)
> cat
> > /var/log/syslog | grep tor -i and got the following (I think I've
> included
> > 2 set of attempts to boot up):
> >
> > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Starting with guard context
> > > "default"
> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Signaled readiness to
> systemd
> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bootstrapped 5% (conn):
> > > Connecting to a relay
> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Server managed proxy
> > > encountered a method error. (obfs4 listen tcp 0.0.0.0:443: bind:
> > > permission denied)
>
> I ran (and keep running) into the same problem (but on Debian), even after
> the fix suggested below.
> Could you please try an unused port above 1024, like 8531? That resolved
> this issue for me.
>
> hope this helps and kind regards.
>
> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Managed proxy at
> > > '/usr/bin/obfs4proxy' failed the configuration protocol and will be
> > > destroyed.
> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: tor_assertion_failed_():
> Bug:
> > > ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836: managed_proxy_stdout_callback:
> > > Assertion mp->conf_state == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed; aborting. (on
> Tor
> > > 0.4.0.5 )
> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug: Assertion
> mp->conf_state
> > > == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed in managed_proxy_stdout_callback at
> > > ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836. Stack trace: (on Tor 0.4.0.5 )
>
> (removed rest of log)
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:12 AM Philipp Winter <phw at torproject.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:50:34PM +1000, Ben Riley wrote:
> > > > Then I saw the above email about being a bridge and thought, fine,
> I'll
> > > > configure it to be a bridge and help out someone.
> > > > Tried to do it via the docker/script method, but soon realised that
> was
> > > > outside my skill level (hey stop laughing! :P)
> > >
> > > Did you run into any specific issues?  If you had troubles following
> the
> > > guide, I'm gonna blame the guide.
> > >
> > > > Setting ORPort to 443 as suggested.  I forwarded that port on the
> > > > router and then tested it, but it said it was closed. So I thought my
> > > > router was playing up.  I checked a few other ports using online
> tools
> > > > and a few of them were closed.  I forwarded a new another port to
> some
> > > > other software on another machine and that worked?!  So I realised
> the
> > > > ports are open on the router but closed on the ubuntu machine.  I've
> > > > played around with all the settings, changed by torrc file to a
> really
> > > > basic one of:
> > >
> > > To run obfs4 on port 443, you will have to run the following command,
> to
> > > allow obfs4proxy to bind to port 443:
> > >
> > >   sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/obfs4proxy
> > >
> > > If you did that already, it would be helpful to see your logs.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Philipp
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