Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I have been fighting to get tor-0.2.1.7-alpha working on my system for a while and finally appear to have it working now. Now I find that trying to connect to IRC servers fails: [15:06] [Info] Trying to reconnect to irc.freenode.org in 20 seconds. [15:06] [Info] Looking for server

Re: Any plans to fix tor for OpenDNS?

2008-11-20 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
I have no idea what is involved in running [a recursive name server] having never configured/setup one before. Would it consume lots of harddrive realestate? Consume lots of swap or RAM? This is on a server that is recursive for a small user community (2 to 10 users, depending on the time of

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 20.11.08 21:10:08 An: or-talk@freehaven.net Betreff: Problems with irc because of tor? I have been fighting to get tor-0.2.1.7-alpha working on my system for a while and finally appear to have it

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Sebastian Hahn wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 20.11.08 21:10:08 An: or-talk@freehaven.net Betreff: Problems with irc because of tor? Why does running tor suddenly cause me to be unable to connect to freenode? I am NOT running a

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
Now I'm really lost on this. Tor quit running (I cannot run tor-0.2.1.7-alpha for more than a couple minutes, so it seems. It just suddenly quits without any errors. It's running then suddenly it isn't. Looks like it is back to the previous version again... That said, tor is down/off and I

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Praedor Atrebates wrote: Now I'm really lost on this. Tor quit running (I cannot run tor-0.2.1.7-alpha for more than a couple minutes, so it seems. It just suddenly quits without any errors. It's running then suddenly it isn't. OK, that's another thing. Looks like it is back to the

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Robert Hogan wrote: Do you run a server yourself? If so, your real IP may be on the irc server's 'tor blocklist'. I don't think so, Freenode wouldn't send the error-message with 127.0.0.1 then, but with his public IP-address. Alex. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Introducing Torsocks - Transparent socks for Tor

2008-11-20 Thread Robert Hogan
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 23:25:59 slush wrote: I found another problem in torsocks bash script. There is missing backslash in sed construction around . torsocks off. More in googlecode issue http://code.google.com/p/torsocks/issues/detail?id=1 Hi Slush, This issue is fixed in SVN now.

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 22:39 +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: Robert Hogan wrote: Do you run a server yourself? If so, your real IP may be on the irc server's 'tor blocklist'. I don't think so, Freenode wouldn't send the error-message with 127.0.0.1 then, but with his public IP-address.

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Praedor Atrebates
I run a relay server only. Never an exit (at least, not for about a year) On Thursday 20 November 2008 16:37:29 Robert Hogan wrote: On Thursday 20 November 2008 21:25:46 Praedor Atrebates wrote: Now I'm really lost on this. Tor quit running (I cannot run tor-0.2.1.7-alpha for more than a

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Sebastian Hahn
Sebastian Hahn wrote: Unfortunately, some service providers choose to not accept Tor users as part of their userbase and block connections from exit nodes. That wasn't the question, he was wondering why he was using Tor at all though he told his client not to use it. Sorry I didn't

Re: Problems with irc because of tor?

2008-11-20 Thread Alexander W. Janssen
Ted Smith wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 22:39 +0100, Alexander W. Janssen wrote: Robert Hogan wrote: Do you run a server yourself? If so, your real IP may be on the irc server's 'tor blocklist'. I don't think so, Freenode wouldn't send the error-message with 127.0.0.1 then, but with his

Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha is out

2008-11-20 Thread Roger Dingledine
Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit relays, further

Re: Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha is out

2008-11-20 Thread Kyle Williams
I did a build with Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha about 5 days ago. Is this the same exact version, or were there updates in the last few days? Thanks! - Kyle On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Roger Dingledine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu

Re: Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha is out

2008-11-20 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 06:55:40PM -0800, Kyle Williams wrote: I did a build with Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha about 5 days ago. Is this the same exact version, or were there updates in the last few days? Same exact version. We make a point of never changing stuff after we tag a release -- if we want to