Dir servers on private networks

[DM]

A few months back I ran into the same problem.  I ended up using V3  
dir servers.


On Nov 10, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Jon McLachlan wrote:

> 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