[tor-relays] Trouble Running Middle Relay On Google Cloud Debian VBS

[Keifer Bly]

--Keifer


On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:28 PM Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a specified port (65534). I just tried changing the ip adress to
> 35.232.92.24  <https://35.232.92.24/>, and the connection to that port is
> allowed by the firewall. I will check again over the next day and see if
> anything chages. It is strange the software says traffic is being received
> and says "
> --May 18 01:20:06.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is
> reachable from the outside. Excellent.
> May 18 01:20:08.000 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done."
>
> So according to the software the relay is reachable and sending and
> receiving traffic. Seems strange it appears unreachable to me. Wonder why
> that might be. Thanks.
>
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 1:42 PM Roman Mamedov <rm at romanrm.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 15 May 2019 22:26:25 -0700
>> Keifer Bly <keifer.bly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > So I am starting a new middle relay using a VPS hosted on Google Cloud
>> > running Debian. though the relay is running, it is not appearing in the
>> > consensus after 10 hours. Here is the tor log, any thoughts on what is
>> > going on would be greatly appreciated thank you.
>>
>> > May 15 18:23:53.000 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort
>> > 35.238.140.120:65534 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes --
>> > look for log messages indicating success)
>> > May 15 18:23:54.000 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is
>> > reachable from the outside. Excellent.
>>
>> FWIW this 35.238.140.120:65534 is not reachable right now from any of my
>> machines. Did you change the port or IP since then? Also, I never used a
>> Google
>> VPS, but it appears you need to do extra steps to ensure you get a static
>> external IP:
>>
>> https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/ip-addresses/reserve-static-external-ip-address
>> Did you do that?
>>
>>
>> --
>> With respect,
>> Roman
>>
>
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