Dir servers on private networks

[Jon McLachlan]

We didn't put the info into the config.c list of auth. dir servers,  
because it seems like the torrc options regarding Dirserver will  
override the hardcoded entries.  Perhaps this is a false assumption?

~Jon

On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Steve Southam wrote:

> Did you put the info about your authoritative directory servers into
> config.c? You may need to run the them first to generate the  
> fingerprints.
> Have you looked at the IP addresses your ORs are publishing to?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-or-talk at freehaven.net [mailto:owner-or- 
> talk at freehaven.net] On
> Behalf Of Jon McLachlan
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:36 AM
> To: or-talk at freehaven.net
> Subject: Dir servers on private networks
>
> Hey everyone,
>
>   Our research team is a bit stuck on a problem of bootstrapping
> generic Tor on a private network in planetlab.  The two authoritative
> directory servers that we are running continuously complain that,
>
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_trusteddirserver(): No trusted
> dirservers are reachable. Trying them all again.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_directory_server(): No
> reachable router entries for dirservers. Trying them all again.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] directory_get_from_dirserver(): No router
> found for consensus network-status fetch; falling back to dirserver
> list.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [info] router_pick_trusteddirserver(): No trusted
> dirservers are reachable. Trying them all again.
> Nov 10 12:22:35.487 [notice] While fetching directory info, no running
> dirservers known. Will try again later. (purpose 14)
>
>
> However, OR's in the network seem to think that they are publishing
> their descriptors without any problem.  When we attempt to browse to
> http://[host]:[port]/all into the Dir port of either of the two
> authoritative dir servers, it consistently responds with zero content
> - we are assuming this is why clients are OR's are not yet
> communicating with each other.  We've attempted this setup on both V1
> and V2 dir servers.
>
> We have exhausted the specific guidance for running a private Tor
> network found here:
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#OwnTorNetwork
>
> Any comments, suggestions, ideas, or guidance would be most
> appreciated.  :)
>
> ~Jon
>