Problems starting relay

[Geoff Down]

Hi,
thanks for the response.
I have no ORListenAddress line in the torrc file - I will try adding 
that line.
The OrPort line is
ORPort 9001
as expected for non-windows
Versions are
  Tor v0.2.0.31 (r16744)
Vidalia 0.1.9

GD

On 2 Nov 2008, at 05:09, Jonathan Addington wrote:

> I can only be of so much help compared to many of the others on this
> list but I'll give it a shot as I am posting as it.
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Geoff Down <downie at castlecops.net> 
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm having trouble starting up a Tor relay.
>> Once I set up port forwarding (I've tried to set it up for TCP and 
>> UDP),
>> should I be able to
>
> Tor only operates in TCP, you don't need to set yourself up UDP.
>
>> a) Ping myself from a looking-glass service
>> b) Traceroute myself from a looking glass ?
>> At the moment neither of these work.
>> I get 'cannot confirm you can be seen from the outside world' errors.
>> I'm on a dynamic IP, Mac OSX, I haven't changed any of the defaults 
>> from the
>> Vidalia bundle.
>> the logs say
>> 'Nov 02 04:35:41.569 [Notice] Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9001'
>
> It probably shouldn't be listening on 0.0.0.0. localhost:9001 or
> 127.0.0.1:9001 are normal unless OS X is different from Windows &
> Linux (sorry, not real familiar with Macs).
>
> Changing that may be enough. It would mean editing your torrc file so
> the  ORListenAddress  line is something like
>
> ORListenAddress localhost:9001
>
> -or--not both-
>
> ORListenAddress 127.0.0.1:9001
>
>
> Also, your ORPort line (default: ORPort 9001) must match the above
> lines. E.g., if
>
> ORPort 2394
>
> then
>
> ORListenAddress localhost:2394
>
>> Thanks,
>> downie
>>
>>
>
> Hopefully this helps. If not, it is possible your port forwarding is
> setup incorrectly. If your computer gets a different IP from your
> router every so often it can cause problems (depending on the router).
>
> I have found it is easier to make sure my Tor server has a static IP
> *inside* my network. E.g., my Tor server always has the address
> 192.168.1.xxx. This is is easy to configure with most routers. If you
> need to configure it this way and have not I or someone else on this
> list ought to be able to help you.
>
> Other questions for you to answer:
> 1) Whatever version or Tor/Vidalia are you running?
> 2) What router do you use?
>
> -madjon