[Fwd: (Probably) a known problem?] - cant run a relay node

Wed Dec 3 21:45:00 UTC 2008

I was not online for fiew days but i think i might have a solution for
Your problem (worked for me)

1) in torrc add following line
ServerDNSResolvConfFile c:\resolv.conf

and inside of resolv.conf put following 3 lines

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
search your.primary.domain

where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy are ip adresses of Your DNS servers
the third line is optional and is used to instruct linux computers for
what domain above DNS servers are authoritative (not sure if its
needed but i added it)

after those changes everything started to work (im not using vidalia
to run Tor i configured it as a service so its running whenewer my
mashine is up

Hope this will be helpfull for You

2008/12/3 Praedor Atrebates <praedor at yahoo.com>:
> I erred.  I am no longer using 0.2.1.7.  I had to give up because I could not
> get it working properly.  Doing what I mention below allowed me to run tor via
> Vidalia but not via Tork (my preferred tor manager).  There was an issue with
> the config file that I could never figure out so I went back to a previous
> version of tor that worked (currently that is 0.2.0.31.
>
> Don't think I will mess with 0.2.1.7 again.  Since you use Vidalia, you might
> manage to get it working more than temporarily.
>
> praedor
>
> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:26:51 Praedor Atrebates wrote:
>> I had horrible troubles getting the latest tor 0.2.1.7 working after
>> upgrading.  I use Tork, not Vidalia, but I suspect the problem is likely
>> the same.
>>
>> I deleted my existing tor directory (in linux, that is in /home/<your home
>> directory>/.tor - I have no idea if there is an equivalent windows setup to
>> this - the directory that contains your tor configuration file) and started
>> tor up again and it worked fine.  I then had to manually edit the config
>> file to add my server name, contact info, etc.  Since then, it has worked.
>>
>> praedor
>>
>> On Wednesday 03 December 2008 12:15:50 Alessandro Donnini wrote:
>> > Thanks for the response. I understand. Below, you will find the copy of
>> > the Vidalia generated torrc.
>> >
>> > The problem is occurring on a system running MS Windows XP SP2.
>> >
>> > Note that prior to the upgrade from 0.2.0.31 to 0.2.1.7 I had no
>> > problems. The problems started occurring as soon as I started Tor again
>> > via Vidalia after the upgrade. Also note that I do not have any problems
>> > running the Tor client.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >
>> > torrc from Document and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Vidalia
>> > ======================================================================
>> > # This file was generated by Tor; if you edit it, comments will not be
>> > preserved # The old torrc file was renamed to torrc.orig.1 or similar,
>> > and Tor will ignore it
>> >
>> > # If set, Tor will accept connections from the same machine (localhost
>> > only) # on this port, and allow those connections to control the Tor
>> > process using # the Tor Control Protocol (described in control-spec.txt).
>> > ControlPort 9051
>> > # Where to send logging messages.  Format is minSeverity[-maxSeverity]
>> > # (stderr|stdout|syslog|file FILENAME).
>> > Log notice stdout
>> >
>> > phobos at rootme.org wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:34:40AM -0500, alexdonnini at ieee.org wrote
>> > > 2.1K
>>
>> bytes in 74 lines about:
>> > > : I would like to continue to run a Tor relay node but am unable to do
>> > > : so until I resolve the problem described below, and I need help in
>> > > : order to do that.
>> > > :
>> > > : > I just upgraded to versions
>> > > : >
>> > > : > 0.1.10 of Vidalia
>> > > : > and
>> > > : > 0.2.1.7 of Tor
>> > > : >
>> > > : > Vidalia is able to run Tor as a client without any problems.
>> > > : >
>> > > : > Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Error] set_options(): Bug: Acting on config
>> > > : > options left us in a broken state. Dying.
>> > > : > Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Warning] eventdns: Didn't find any
>> > > : > nameservers. Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Warning] Could not config
>> > > : > nameservers. Nov 30 22:02:52.906 [Error] set_options(): Bug: Acting
>> > > : > on config options left us in a broken state. Dying.
>> > >
>> > > A few things,  you probably haven't received a response because no one
>> > > has a good idea how to fix it.  You may have 2 issues, one is that
>> > > libevent can't find nameservers, and the other is that the config
>> > > options are broken.
>> > >
>> > > As for the dns issues:
>> > >
>> > > https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=813
>> > >
>> > > or
>> > >
>> > > https://bugs.torproject.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=868
>> > >
>> > > Are you running Windows?
>> > >
>> > > For the config issues, which may be related to the dns issues, do you
>> > > have a copy of the torrc that's generated by Vidalia?
>> >
>> > gpgkeys: key DE3BBB9A8C295FD5 not found on keyserver
>
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