[tor-talk] obfsproxy failure: obfs3

lee colleton lee at colleton.net
Wed Aug 14 06:52:38 UTC 2013


I'm using the development branch with Debian Wheezy per
https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en

lee at tor-bootstrap:~$ dpkg -l obfsproxy tor
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                            Version              Architecture
       Description
+++-===============================-====================-====================-====================================================================
ii  obfsproxy                       0.1.4-2              amd64
       pluggable transport proxy for Tor
ii  tor                             0.2.4.15-rc-1~d70.wh amd64
       anonymizing overlay network for TCP



On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:11:18PM -0700, lee colleton wrote:
> > I'd like some help getting obfs3 set up. I'm seeing an error when I
> attempt
> > to start an obfsproxy bridge:
> >
> > Aug 13 06:49:17.000 [notice] Tor 0.2.4.15-rc (git-f41c20b344fb7359)
> > opening new log file.
> > Aug 13 06:49:17.000 [notice] Configured hibernation.  This interval
> > began at 2013-08-13 00:00:00; the scheduled wake-up time was
> > 2013-08-13 00:00:00; we expect to exhaust our quota for this interval
> > around 2013-08-14 00:00:00; the next interval begins at 2013-08-14
> > 00:00:00 (all times local)
> > Aug 13 06:49:18.000 [warn] Server managed proxy encountered a method
> > error. (obfs3 could not setup protocol)
> > Aug 13 06:49:18.000 [warn] Managed proxy at '/usr/bin/obfsproxy'
> > failed the configuration protocol and will be destroyed.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Here's the config:
> >
> > # A unique handle for your server.
> > #Nickname ec2$CONFIG$RESERVATION
> > Nickname gcedemo
> >
> > ContactInfo Lee Colleton <lee at colleton.net>
> >
> > # Set "SocksPort 0" if you plan to run Tor only as a server, and not
> > # make any local application connections yourself.
> > SocksPort 0
> >
> > # What port to advertise for Tor connections.
> > ORPort 443
> >
> > # Listen on a port other than the one advertised in ORPort (that is,
> > # advertise 443 but bind to 9001).
> > ORListenAddress 0.0.0.0:9001
> >
> > # Start Tor as a bridge.
> > BridgeRelay 1
> >
> > # Run obfsproxy
> > ServerTransportPlugin obfs2,obfs3 exec /usr/bin/obfsproxy --managed
> > ServerTransportListenAddr obfs2 0.0.0.0:52176
> > ServerTransportListenAddr obfs3 0.0.0.0:40872
>
> Hi Lee!
>
> Thanks for running a bridge! How did you install obfsproxy? If you
> installed it using your distribution's package manager, which distribution
> do you use?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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