[tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread douglastskillern
Hello List, I am experiencing a strange problem for about two weeks or so. I am using GNU/Liux (Debian 6 x86-64) and Tor 0.2.2.35 built from source. I forward all my tcp traffic and udp traffic on port 53 to my tor instance via netfilter. So here is my problem: whenever I do DNS lookup via gli

[tor-talk] Obfuscated Tor bridge

2012-02-14 Thread Anne Magarey
hello I am using the instructions on http://pastebin.com/09A1WgXc to set up an obfuscated Tor bridge. I get this far: /obfsproxy$ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart ABORTED: Tor configuration invalid: Feb 14 19:11:38.039 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-73ff13ab3cc9570d). This is experimental software.

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:43:44AM -0500, douglastskill...@lavabit.com wrote: > 1 0.00192.168.178.30 127.0.0.1 DNS Standard query > A torproject.org > 2 0.27192.168.178.30 127.0.0.1 DNS Standard query > torproject.org > 3 0.000155

Re: [tor-talk] Obfuscated Tor bridge

2012-02-14 Thread Andy Dixon
On 14/02/12 09:04, Anne Magarey wrote: > hello > I am using the instructions on http://pastebin.com/09A1WgXc to set up > an obfuscated Tor bridge. I get this far: > > > /obfsproxy$ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart > ABORTED: Tor configuration invalid: > Feb 14 19:11:38.039 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-7

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread Alexander Schrijver
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:50:01AM +0100, Alexander Schrijver wrote: > The IP you're sending to and the IP you're receiving form don't match. The > glibc stub resolver probably trashes these. Actually, the UDP datagram probably never gets received by the stub resolver, the OS trashes it since no o

Re: [tor-talk] Obfuscated Tor bridge

2012-02-14 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 07:34:06PM +1030, Anne Magarey wrote: > I am using the instructions on http://pastebin.com/09A1WgXc to set up > an obfuscated Tor bridge. I get this far: > > > /obfsproxy$ sudo /etc/init.d/tor restart > ABORTED: Tor configuration invalid: > Feb 14 19:11:38.039 [notice] Tor

Re: [tor-talk] Obfuscated Tor bridge

2012-02-14 Thread Anne Magarey
Unfortunately that did not work for me. Thank you for your help. On 14/02/12 19:42, Andy Dixon wrote: On 14/02/12 09:04, Anne Magarey wrote: hello I am using the instructions on http://pastebin.com/09A1WgXc to set up an obfuscated Tor bridge. I get this far: /obfsproxy$ sudo /etc/init.d/tor r

Re: [tor-talk] Obfuscated Tor bridge

2012-02-14 Thread Kevin Brubeck Unhammer
Anne Magarey writes: > Unfortunately that did not work for me. Thank you for your help. Could you have several versions of tor installed? > On 14/02/12 19:42, Andy Dixon wrote: >> On 14/02/12 09:04, Anne Magarey wrote: >>> Feb 14 19:11:38.039 [notice] Tor v0.2.2.35 (git-73ff13ab3cc9570d). Doe

Re: [tor-talk] Obfuscated Tor bridge

2012-02-14 Thread Anne Magarey
Thanks everyone. It's done. I'm pleased. anne On 14/02/12 21:02, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote: Anne Magarey writes: Unfortunately that did not work for me. Thank you for your help. Could you have several versions of tor installed? On 14/02/12 19:42, Andy Dixon wrote: On 14/02/12 09:04, An

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread douglastskillern
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 02:43:44AM -0500, douglastskill...@lavabit.com > wrote: >> 1 0.00192.168.178.30 127.0.0.1 DNS Standard >> query A torproject.org >> 2 0.27192.168.178.30 127.0.0.1 DNS Standard >> query torproject.org >> 3 0.000

Re: [tor-talk] Help users in Iran reach the internet

2012-02-14 Thread Mansour Moufid
Brandon, Use the --prefix option of the configure script: $ ./configure --prefix=/some/local/path $ make $ make install Then make sure /some/local/path is in your PATH: $ echo 'PATH=/some/local/path:$PATH' >> ~/.profile $ echo 'export PATH' >> ~/.profile $ source ~/.prof

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread douglastskillern
Arg, I am not even sure whether glibc is the problem. A minimal sample application that performs lookups performs just fine. #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char** argv) {

Re: [tor-talk] Tor bridge delivery method

2012-02-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:59:34 +0100 Xu yourdad wrote: > I have recently watched a video of a conference where Tor developers > discuss the arms race engaged between them and various governments to > shut down access to the Tor network. > > I have come out with the outline of a design to a mid term

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread douglastskillern
> Arg, I am not even sure whether glibc is the problem. A minimal sample > application that performs lookups performs just fine. > [...] Here are two strace logs, one with a working lookup and one with a failed one.___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lis

[tor-talk] HOWTO : setting up an obfsproxy bridge on torcloud

2012-02-14 Thread Daniel ".koolfy" Faucon
Hello, I just finished writing some instructions on how to set up an obfsproxy bridge on torcloud images. http://pastebin.com/xCA9LmQt It's largely based on https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy-instructions.html.en but differs mainly on two points : 1) the way to fetch .deb files ne

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2012-02-14, douglastskill...@lavabit.com wrote: > Hello List, > > I am experiencing a strange problem for about two weeks or so. > > I am using GNU/Liux (Debian 6 x86-64) and Tor 0.2.2.35 built from source. > I forward all my tcp traffic and udp traffic on port 53 to my tor instance > via netfi

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread douglastskillern
>> Arg, I am not even sure whether glibc is the problem. A minimal sample >> application that performs lookups performs just fine. >> > [...] > > Here are two strace logs, one with a working lookup and one with a failed > one. Oops, forgot the links: success: http://pastebin.com/waa4fgPG fail: h

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread douglastskillern
> On 2012-02-14, douglastskill...@lavabit.com > wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I am experiencing a strange problem for about two weeks or so. >> >> I am using GNU/Liux (Debian 6 x86-64) and Tor 0.2.2.35 built from >> source. >> I forward all my tcp traffic and udp traffic on port 53 to my tor >> inst

Re: [tor-talk] Tor bridge delivery method

2012-02-14 Thread Xu yourdad
Hi Andrew, I have read those 2 links. The design I'm thinking of would be resistant to probing attacks presented in the "ten ways to discover bridges" article in that it would modify the bridge protocol to be "semi" public. The basic idea is to perform hand shaking between the bridge and the clien

[tor-talk] Call for volunteers for UCL Usable Security, Privacy, and Tor study

2012-02-14 Thread Andrew Lewman
I've started working with some students at University College London to help them figure out usable security, privacy, and tor. We need some volunteers willing to be interviewed via phone/skype/gchat by the students. Preferably, you self-identify as either an activist or a non-activist normal per

Re: [tor-talk] glibc's DNS lookups fail

2012-02-14 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 05:34:55PM -0500, douglastskill...@lavabit.com wrote: > Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) > target prot opt source destination > MASQUERADE tcp -- 192.168.179.0/24!192.168.179.0/24masq ports: > 1024-65535 > MASQUERADE udp -- 192.168.179.0/24

Re: [tor-talk] tor-blocking sites

2012-02-14 Thread Jim
Sorry for my delayed response. I got a little behind in my email. Mr Dash Four wrote: Scroogle is currently having trouble scraping Google. Maybe Dash Fours problems with it are unrelated to Tor? Nope. I am well aware of this and it isn't an issue which just popped yesterday or a week ago