[tor-talk] Tor doesn't connect over a proxy

Not Friendly notfriendly at riseup.net
Mon Jun 6 19:59:07 UTC 2016


On 2016-06-06 14:45, katerimmel at sigaint.org wrote:
>> On 2016-06-06 14:15, katerimmel at sigaint.org wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> I'm trying to connect Tor over a proxy in Qubes. In proxy machine I
>>> have a
>>> proxy software (JonDo) while in the AppVM I have installed Tor. In
>>> torrc I
>>> have setup as socks5 "ip of proxyVM" and as port "4001" (JonDo port)
>>> but
>>> Tor bootstrap always stops at 80%, showing this:
>>> 
>>> "Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 80%:Connecting to the Tor network. 
>>> (No
>>>   route to host; NOROUTE; count 3; recommendation warn; host
>>> A705AD4591E7B4708FA2CAC3D53E81962F3E6F6 at 46.166.170.5:443
>>> 2 connection have failed
>>> 2 connection died in state connect()ing with SSL state (No SSL 
>>> subject)
>>> The connection to the SOCKS5 proxy server at "ipVM":4001 just failed.
>>> Make
>>> sure that the proxy server is up and running"
>>> 
>>> I tried to setup before in whonix but without result
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>> 
>> Your setup isn't safe. The proper setup is to have tor running in the
>> "Proxy VM" and then then have the "App VM" tunnel all traffic over
>> through the Proxy VM. I'm not sure why you are using JonDo. Since they
>> first charge for their services and because of it have billing records
>> and they are also proven to keep logs on the amount of bandwidth you
>> use.
>> 
>> Keep in mind they state:
>> "Only the following non-individual-related information sent by your
>> browser is stored:
>> 
>> the visited webpage (URL)
>> browser type / browser version
>> operating system
>> referrer URL (the site visited before)
>> time of the server request"
>> 
>> in their privacy policy.
>> 
>> You are by no means anonymous while using JonDo nor safe as since they
>> store the information they could be forced to hand it over. It puts 
>> you
>> at risk. Just setup a traditional who-nix setup.
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> Hello
> Thank you for your reply
> I want setup jondo before Tor
> Vpn-->JonDo-->sys-whonix-->anonwhonix (vpn and Jondo in the same 
> proxyVM)
> I use tor to navigate but I would use JonDo for a more long chain (in 
> this
> case JonDo see only tor traffic)
Well I can say one thing about this. With the long chain you are going 
to have serious latency issues. Using Tor alone is sufficient. 
Increasing the chain length doesn't add to your anonymity nor security 
but it does slow down the connection a lot further.
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