Problem with dynamic IP

[zmj]

er, but i'm running on windows XP

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, zmj <zangmj at gmail.com> wrote:

> on your second question:
> it's a default dir, it's like this:  C:\Documents and Settings\"YOUR USER
> NAME HERE"\Application Data\tor\keys
>
> my user name is zmj, so my dir is: C:\Documents and Settings\zmj\Application
> Data\tor\keys
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Geoff Down <downie at castlecops.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  the Tor FAQs mentions bugginess with how Tor detects the IP of a relay
>> when it isn't fixed.
>> I think I have this problem - the logs show Tor changing the IP it
>> advertises to the world for the ORPort even though my IP has not in fact
>> changed:
>>
>> Nov 04 03:47:29.242 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from xxx to yyy;
>> rebuilding descriptor.
>> Nov 04 03:56:44.210 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is
>> reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>> Nov 04 04:17:58.142 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from yyy to xxx;
>> rebuilding descriptor.
>> Nov 04 04:19:05.460 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is
>> reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>> Nov 04 04:19:37.005 [Notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done.
>> Nov 04 04:38:19.808 [Notice] Our IP Address has changed from xxx to yyy;
>> rebuilding descriptor.
>> Nov 04 04:43:44.802 [Notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is
>> reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor.
>>
>> Here yyy is the false IP - odd that it is supposedly reachable from the
>> outside world.
>> The false IP is however on the right network, and could be one I had
>> earlier in the day/week/month. Any idea how to stop this happening please?
>> It's Tor 0.2.0.31 (r16744) MacOSX 10.3.9.
>>  Also, I'm advised to back up my relay's private key 'stored in
>> "keys/secret_id_key" in your DataDirectory' . Where is that? I don't have a
>> DataDirectory defined in the torrc.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> downie
>>
>>
>
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