Re: Tor log inquiry.
Caitlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sep 08 00:51:31:343 [Warning] second_elapsed_callback(): Your server (xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9001) has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc. Tune your packet filter. http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#ServerForFirewalledClients Thal
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
sigi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: possibly we get a problem, because in Germany they're just confiscating tor-middleman-nodes?!? Middleman? Plural? The message is only available in German... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-496214.html This is about one single hard disk being confiscated. It happened before (maybe not in Germany), and it will happen again. The original post has been edited twice and at the moment it states that the poster assumes he run an exit node. Does anyone here have similar problems? I have not and I don't see any reason to panic. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
Exactly this happened to me, too, yesterday. I am running a dedicated host by Strato, providing unused bandwith for tor (nickname baphomet) which is configured as a exit node. This host is unavail since 9:00 MEST yesterday. The guys at Strato gave me the phone number of a public prosecutor. I spoke with him, and though he wasnt allowed to tell me details by phone, we has some conversation. When I told him that I provide some bandwith for tor he knew about tor and told me that it is NOT FORBIDDEN in germany to do so. He asked me if it could be possible that my server has been hacked and been abused. Unfortunately I have not yet received any letter from them so I dont know what's the real reason. I think, two things might be: some illegal activities have been made through tor and unfortunately my host was exit node in the right moment. Or, they are searching for hidden services. Perhaps there are nodes within tor that provide content that is unallowed in germany and they start confiscating all tor nodes and search for unallowed content. If so, some more of us will get troubles soon. My personal opinion: I have no hidden service. I have no unallowed content at my host. It is allowed to run tor in germany. I will go on running a tor node. I tell anybody here to do so, too. Kind Regards Thomas Hluchnik Am Freitag, 8. September 2006 02:57 schrieb sigi: Hi, possibly we get a problem, because in Germany they're just confiscating tor-middleman-nodes?!? The message is only available in German... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-496214.html Does anyone here have similar problems? asks; sigi. pgpyh4t6Aougw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
Hi, wuschelpuschel (running an exit config) was busted either. I called the Staatsanwaltschaft (public prosecutors authority) Konstanz and the Landeskriminalamt (state Office of Criminal Investigation) Baden-Wuerttemberg, there's a big thing happening at the moment, as they had to have a *long* look at the list of busted computers to find mine. Plus, the LKAs don't care about the small and simple stuff. Both know about Tor and are hunting for traces. Didn't get more to know via fone. We should be on the safe side, I guess there will be less trouble than with the normal police/criminal investigators involved. Good luck, Peter.
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
Hi, Or, they are searching for hidden services. Perhaps there are nodes within tor that provide content that is unallowed in germany and they start confiscating all tor nodes and search for unallowed content. If so, some more of us will get troubles soon. What?!? How could be that justified? You can't legally search a random computer without any suspicion of a crime. My personal opinion: I have no hidden service. I have no unallowed content at my host. It is allowed to run tor in germany. I will go on running a tor node. I tell anybody here to do so, too. The real bullshit is that you can also have encrypted hard drive and then a hidden service on it. Could you give more information about that? Do you have some official documents? bye, Matej
Re: Tor server question regarding hidden services.
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:45:40 -0700 Caitlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I just finished enabling a hidden service on my Tor server but I felt compelled to ask a few questions. 1). In order to run a hidden service, does one have to set-up a Tor server with an exit node? If so, would I have to use the rule: accept * 80 ...(?) Thanks, Caitlin Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Hi Caitlin, Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm fairly sure the answer to your question is No. You should not need to configure your server to exit on port 80 in order to run a hidden service. In any case, this should be fairly easy to test. Once you have your hidden service configured, set your server to NOT exit to port 80, and then try to access your hidden service through the Tor network. Hope that helps. Best regards, Joe
Re: Tor server question regarding hidden services.
You do not need to run an exit node to run a hidden service. -Jon
Re: Tor server question regarding hidden services.
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 11:54:54AM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: You do not need to run an exit node to run a hidden service. Just to be complete: you do not need to run a Tor node at all to run a hidden service. Your hidden server can just be a client as far as the Tor network is concerned. -Paul -- Paul Syverson () ascii ribbon campaign Contact info at http://www.syverson.org/ /\ against html e-mail
Re[2]: Attn: Nick or Roger: An offer to enable you to release Widows builds
How have you gotten libevent to compile under mingw? i keep getting errors. Regards, Arrakistor Friday, September 8, 2006, 1:02:07 PM, you wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:00:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.8K bytes in 20 lines about: : Can you not just use MS VC Express, which is free? It's free with conditions. The other issue was converting to the MSVCE project from previous was error prone. I failed to build workable binaries with MS VCE. I'm working with mingw now.
Re[3]: Attn: Nick or Roger: An offer to enable you to release Widows builds
What code did you have to edit? I see the changes I have done to the code already in the SVN (probably somebody also built it and had to correct the same issues), so I think now there is no need to post them. -- Best regards, ygrekhttp://ygrek.org.ua xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgppOh7R4JBGs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
Hello mine (stasiServer) has also gone away yesterday. The public prosecutors authority told me it has to do with child pornography (CP). Look like some pervert have used tor to get some CP. :( He also told me on the phone that they are hunting for traces. I have to write a letter to public prosecutors authority to get more information about what is going on and why. He will answer on monday. I don't know how this normally happens, but should't they inform me that they took my server hostet at Strato? Big shit :( PS: Maybe this is the beginning of some kind of anti TOR war because police cannot find terrorists which are using TOR. But to make TOR more evil in the public they start saying that perverts are using TOR to get CP. Just my 2 euro cents...
tor server behind smoothwall
I recently switched to a smoothwall firewall (info: www.smoothwall.org) and for some reason my Tor server ports could not be accessed behind the green interface.The issue is definetely not port forwarding because I run web\ftp servers behind it with no problem.Does anyone know a solution? Smoothwall firewalls have very strong protection and might be blocking Tor in some way. Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1ยข/min.
Re: [or-talk] tor server behind smoothwall
Thanks so much for the tip!!I realized that I could just put the name of my dyndns.org account into the adress of vidalia (as you stated about DNS not affected), and it now saysTor can reach the ports. :)-Rouslan N.Sam Creasey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Rouslan Nabioullin wrote: I recently switched to a smoothwall firewall (info: www.smoothwall.org) and for some reason my Tor server ports could not be accessed behind the green interface. The issue is definetely not port forwarding because I run web\ftp servers behind it with no problem. Does anyone know a solution? Smoothwall firewalls have very strong protection and might be blocking Tor in some way.I'm just guessing here, as I don't run my Tor server behind an external firewall, but... If the smoothwall, like some firewalls, is doing some sort of NAT out the outgoing IP address, you may be adveritsing an incorrect IP address for your server. This wouldn't be as likely to affect WWW servers, where you publish the address yourself (e.g. through DNS) as it would be for Tor, which publishes it's own address.I'd take a look at the Address line in your torrc, which may need to reflect the address of the smoothwall, rather than the internal address of your machine.Again, this is just a guess, your configuration my be completely different.Good luck... :)-- Sam Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
Just a thought here.. is there anyway that the Dev's or people running the main directory servers could get a list of all the compromised (confiscated) Tor Servers? They should definitely be listed as invalid at the very least. If not outright blacklisted, or at least their key pairs should be, as it would be very hard to be sure that their private keys haven't been compromised. On Fri, 2006-08-09 at 21:55 +0200, linux wrote: Hello mine (stasiServer) has also gone away yesterday. The public prosecutors authority told me it has to do with child pornography (CP). Look like some pervert have used tor to get some CP. :( He also told me on the phone that they are hunting for traces. I have to write a letter to public prosecutors authority to get more information about what is going on and why. He will answer on monday. I don't know how this normally happens, but should't they inform me that they took my server hostet at Strato? Big shit :( PS: Maybe this is the beginning of some kind of anti TOR war because police cannot find terrorists which are using TOR. But to make TOR more evil in the public they start saying that perverts are using TOR to get CP. Just my 2 euro cents... -- Freemor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freemor [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail has been digitally signed with GnuPG signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: confiscating middleman-tor-nodes
I hopefully get on monday some information why they did it. There are several articles in german internet news. The prosecutor said something about CP and TOR. On the short telephone call he did not explain me a lot but he has confirmed that the Office of Criminal Investigation will scan for traces of those people because they used TOR to get the CP. No idea how they want to do this. If they find something then TOR isn't good. If they don't find anything, TOR is fine. On Friday 08 September 2006 23:29, Andrew Del Vecchio wrote: I don't suppose they gave you any plausible cause did they? For all we know, CP was just the excuse, and no one could EVER be against something if you say it's fighting child porn right? It's the best thing since the WoT
