Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection
On Wednesday 18 December 2013 05:20 AM, Mark Jamsek wrote: On 18/12/2013 9:20 AM, I wrote: Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your current IP address. FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Perform the following: 1. register at freedns.afraid.org 2. choose a domain from the registry[1] and create your subdomain (e.g. myTor.mooo.com) 2. either configure your router to update your IP or download one of the available clients: http://freedns.afraid.org/scripts/freedns.clients.php 3. in your torrc, configure: Address myTor.mooo.com 4. service tor restart And your relay will automatically resolve your domain (myTor.mooo.com) to your dynamic IP. [1] http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Great! DDNS service looks like a nice way to make this permanent. The other thing I managed was by enabling upnp in my router, the address discovery takes place automatically. thanks for the suggestions! -- Abhiram Chintangal ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection
On Tuesday 17 December 2013 11:50 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:25:15AM +0530, abhiram wrote: I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are there better ways of handing this? One thing that puzzled me was that when I first setup my relay it was unable to find the external address of my connection and its log files kept complaining that: If x.x.x.x:9030 is not your correct IP address and directory port, please check your relay's configuration What program gave that log message? That isn't a log message in Tor. Maybe Vidalia? Unless you're paraphrasing? Obviously it wasn't my ip address, when I looked it up it was from another country. So my question is why is my relay advertising this specific address? What operating system, what Tor version, and how did you install it? I wonder if your /etc/hosts file has a stale address in it, so Tor doesn't try to guess because your computer has already set its IP address (even though it's wrong)? --Roger ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Thanks for your response. I tried two versions of tor, one that came with TBB (.2.3.25) and the other I built using the source package(.2.4.19). Oh and I am running Arch. I did take a look at hosts file but there weren't any stale entries. I am hoping that by running tor on my other machine I can rule out problems with old config files. -- Abhiram Chintangal ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection (abhiram)
hello to everybody, as there were some alternatives for dynmic DNS handling mentioned, i'd like to add the following: as with most commercial dyndns providers come conditions (paid account, limited number of hosts, and - what annoys me the most - login after x days, etc.) i want to point you to https://nsupdate.info. this is an open-source project which offers dynamic DNS service with some advantages. i.e. they state they state in their why another one?-section: nagging its users to make a paid subscription annoying its users with advertisements or spam cancelling hosts or accounts after a short period of non-usage hiding the few free features almost undiscoverably between a ton of commercial-only features so check it out and a nice day to all of you! signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection
Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your current IP address. FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Re: [tor-relays] running a relay on a home connection
On 18/12/2013 9:20 AM, I wrote: Could you expand that it little further, please? Robert You may use a dynamic dns resolver such as freedns.afraid.org, dyn.com or noip.com etc, then you can use your full dns name instead of your current IP address. FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays Perform the following: 1. register at freedns.afraid.org 2. choose a domain from the registry[1] and create your subdomain (e.g. myTor.mooo.com) 2. either configure your router to update your IP or download one of the available clients: http://freedns.afraid.org/scripts/freedns.clients.php 3. in your torrc, configure: Address myTor.mooo.com 4. service tor restart And your relay will automatically resolve your domain (myTor.mooo.com) to your dynamic IP. [1] http://freedns.afraid.org/domain/registry/ ___ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
