Re: Can't Contact Scroogle

2011-02-12 Thread Gitano
On 2011-02-12 11:01, Jim wrote: I currently cannot reach https://ssl.scroogle.org:443/ via Tor. Me too. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body.

Re: quick question about my bridge relay...

2011-01-31 Thread Gitano
On 2011-01-31 15:26, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: I've set up a bridge relay and it seems to work for a bit and then stop routing traffic. I'm wondering if I've misconfigured it or something. Get your 'external' address (http://checkip.dyndns.com/) and start your bridge with this IP. Better:

Re: Is gatereloaded a Bad Exit?

2011-01-29 Thread Gitano
On 2011-01-29 19:46, Jan Weiher wrote: while scrolling through the tor status page (torstatus.blutmagie.de), I stumpled upon the following node (the reason why it came to my eye was the long uptime): gatereloaded 550C C972 4FA7 7C7F 9260 B939 89D2 2A70 654D 3B92 This node looks

Re: cave updates, Qwest

2011-01-28 Thread Gitano
On 2011-01-28 20:23, scar wrote: Unfortunately, there still exist some problems and hiccups i've been dealing with. While the DMCA complaints have so far stopped, my internet has been disabled three times now due to 'malicious' behavior. Maybe it will help to disable the exit to your isp's

Problem with: Bridge IP:ORPort fingerprint

2010-12-25 Thread Gitano
If you start Tor with: Bridge IP:ORPort fingerprint and there exists an old entry with the same fingerprint in '/var/lib/tor/cached-descriptors' then 'IP:ORPort' (or 'url:ORPort') will be disregarded and the ''IP:ORPort' from the old entry is used instead. This is bad for unregistered bridges

Re: tor is blocked in china

2010-12-23 Thread Gitano
On 2010-12-23 06:49, Lu Wei wrote: Only a little inconvenience is that bridge address must be entered digitally. You can also use the following Syntax: Bridge URL:portnumber fingerprint *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail

Re: Who knows 'gabelmoo-legacy' and 'moria1-legacy'

2010-11-15 Thread Gitano
On 2010-11-14 14:11, I wrote: Today my Tor-Node v0.2.2.17-alpha (git-d30d4eb843f12e65) crashed two times with the following log-entries: ### Nov 14 10:22:41.627 [info] Consensus includes unrecognized authority 'gabelmoo-legacy' at 80.190.246.100:8180 (contact n/a; identity

Who knows 'gabelmoo-legacy' and 'moria1-legacy'

2010-11-14 Thread Gitano
Today my Tor-Node v0.2.2.17-alpha (git-d30d4eb843f12e65) crashed two times with the following log-entries: ### Nov 14 10:22:41.627 [info] Consensus includes unrecognized authority 'gabelmoo-legacy' at 80.190.246.100:8180 (contact n/a; identity 81349FC1F2DBA2C2C11B45CB9706637D480AB913) Nov 14

Re: Privoxy doesn't start on booting

2010-11-01 Thread Gitano
On 2010-11-01 19:47, James Brown wrote: I have the next recordes in my logs of the privoxy: Nov 01 16:16:53.541 7f2ec27fa6f0 Info: Privoxy version 3.0.13 Nov 01 16:16:53.567 7f2ec27fa6f0 Info: Program name: /usr/sbin/privoxy Nov 01 16:16:53.572 7f2ec27fa6f0 Info: Listening on port 8118 on IP

Re: ... identity key was not as expected:

2010-10-05 Thread Gitano
On 2010-10-04 18:02, Gitano wrote: Today I found these two entries in the logfile of my relay (Picolino): Oct 03 20:20:46.513 [warn] Tried connecting to router at 78.53.207.239:443, but identity key was not as expected: wanted 8557B4AA9D3E5784E013F15C310DBFF593687D84 but got

... identity key was not as expected:

2010-10-04 Thread Gitano
Today I found these two entries in the logfile of my relay (Picolino): Oct 03 20:20:46.513 [warn] Tried connecting to router at 78.53.207.239:443, but identity key was not as expected: wanted 8557B4AA9D3E5784E013F15C310DBFF593687D84 but got C221743B643DE6178AC034370E324A0B232E75DA. Oct 04

Re: BetterPrivacy - necessary?

2010-09-29 Thread Gitano
On 2010-09-29 20:19, Matthew wrote: I currently use Tor + Polipo + Torbutton + NoScript. Obviously there are other add-ons for Firefox out there such as BetterPrivacy. I think 'BetterPrivacy' is a must! [1] Are any other add-ons necessary or would people suggest I am now fully

Re: Privoxy doesn't start on booting

2010-09-23 Thread Gitano
On 2010-09-21 07:03, James Brown wrote: I have changed them for belonging to privoxy but it did not resolve my problem: ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy root 50341 2010-09-18 13:00 config -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy root 66849 2009-07-06 22:50 default.action -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy root 37588 2009-07-06

Re: Privoxy doesn't start on booting

2010-09-20 Thread Gitano
On 2010-09-20 19:39, James Brown wrote: OS - Ubuntu 9.10 on a laptop Privoxy version 3.0.13 Tor version 0.2.1.26 I have installed tor and privoxy and now I have the next problem. When I boot my system privoxy does not start as daemon and I need to start it manually (/etc/init.d/privoxy

Re: Cannot retrieve apt key from keyserver

2010-08-16 Thread Gitano
On 2010-08-16 15:33, via@free.fr wrote: When I type in the terminal the following line: --- gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv 886DDD89 --- I get an error telling me the key hasn't been found. I tried to retrieve the key from http://keys.gnupg.net/. The key isn't found.

Re: Problem with the TB automatically usage of an alternative search engine

2010-07-30 Thread Gitano
On 2010-07-30 08:27, James Brown wrote: TB 1.2.5 Today I have the next problem when the TB automatically use the ixquick.com-engine instead the Google: 'https://ssl.scroogle.org/' works well for me since years. *** To

Re: HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

2010-05-28 Thread Gitano
On 28.05.2010 06:22, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: DuckDuckGo and Startpage.com are two alternative (specifically to google) search engines which promise not to record your IP address : My favorite since many years is: https://ssl.scroogle.org/ (over Tor)

Re: Torbutton 1.2.5 Released

2010-04-10 Thread Gitano
Mike Perry wrote: I've written a bit more on the reasoning behind these two changes at: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/torbutton-release-125-google-captchas-and-addonsmozillaorg Access denied You are not authorized to access this page. Oops!?

Re: vps

2010-04-04 Thread Gitano
DC wrote: to start learning and trying it myself i will get a cheap vps to start with. what's the os version specifically that works best with Tor? I prefer Ubuntu-server, but Debian is as simple. Please have a look at: https://www.torproject.org/docs/debian But beware - on a vps you should

Re: Full bandwidth is not used.

2010-03-16 Thread Gitano
Paul Menzel wrote: It is a virtual machine ... Is it safe to say, that it is a client problem that they do not use my server? 1. On vservers there are many resource limits. Please check: 'cat /proc/user_beancounters'. 2. Have you read 'http://www.webtropia.com/home/faq.html?article=366'? I

Re: can i ask questions about privoxy here...?

2010-01-02 Thread Gitano
emigrant wrote: is that possible? Which question(s) beside 'http://www.privoxy.org/faq/index.html'? *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body.

Re: Privoxy and Polipo

2009-12-27 Thread Gitano
arshad wrote: but now i want to disable that deanaimate gif thing. but there isn't a place in config file to do that :( The place for personal configuration in privoxy is 'user.action'. You can append these two lines: {-deanimate-gifs} / # Match all URLs

Re: TOR is for anonymization; so how to add encryption as well?

2009-12-27 Thread Gitano
basile wrote: If you repeat the above, but go to https://www.google.com (note the http+s), then the above changes in that the clear http is replaced by encrypted https. Then even the tor exit node admin can't see your traffic. It depends on the location of the exit node. I saw changing the

Re: Tor: Scroogle blocked, Google not ? (November 2009)

2009-11-23 Thread Gitano
Jim wrote: The past few days I've noticed that all http requests to https://ssl.scroogle.org have invariably failed. This appeared as a DNS failure. After switching over to the regular http (non-ssl) version of scroogle, I found that was generally working for another couple of days then that

Re: Reliable relay status check

2009-09-10 Thread Gitano
Brian Mearns wrote: Is there a way to test that my relay is working? My logs indicate that ORPort and DirPort are both reachable from the outside, but several different websites (such as https://torstat.xenobite.eu/) can't find my relay (nicknamed shallot). Your relay was working:

Re: Annoying loop situation

2009-08-22 Thread Gitano
Bob Williams wrote: The uncommented lines in my privoxy config file are: forward 192.168.*.*/ . forward-socks4a / 127.0.0.1:9050 . forward-socks5/ 127.0.0.1:9050 . To use privoxy without Tor you can add the following line BELOW the

Re: Annoying loop situation

2009-08-22 Thread Gitano
Bob Williams wrote: To use privoxy without Tor you can add the following line BELOW the 'forward-socks*' lines: forward/. Last match wins, see also: http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/config.html#FORWARDING The effect of this would be the same as NOT having the forward-socks*

Re: Two different hidden service on the same tor client

2009-07-30 Thread Gitano
Roger Dingledine wrote: Hidden services aren't exactly robust these days though, so the fact that you couldn't reach the second service is not a huge surprise. Upgrade to 0.2.1.19 and try again is the best advice I can offer. Well done! Thank you for that version. After several days of

Re: Two different hidden service on the same tor client

2009-07-29 Thread Gitano
leandro noferini wrote: Now comes the question: is possibile to run the two hidden service on port 80 together? If I change the above lines in HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/server-1/ HiddenServicePort 80 127.0.0.1:8183 HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/server-2/ HiddenServicePort 80

Re: Two different hidden service on the same tor client

2009-07-29 Thread Gitano
Roger Dingledine wrote: Yes, the portnumber must be unique for the service. No, it ought to work fine. The 80 is the virtual port, and it only has to be unique per hidden service. Typo - sorry. 'Yes' should be 'No'!

Re: warning message question

2009-07-26 Thread Gitano
Scott Bennett wrote: Saturday morning, I got the following message. Jul 25 09:33:57.004 [warn] Received http status code 502 (Proxy Error) from server '80.190.246.100:80' while fetching consensus directory. I've got similar messages too, always in conjunction with 'Got a bad signature

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Gitano
James Brown wrote: There is a very strong control over telephony in many countries. Many counties intend to make this control more and more stronger. In the Russia, when I live, for example the Putin's and Medvedev's bloody dictatorial regim now intend to ban VoIP telephony:

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Gitano
James Brown wrote: And what about phone calls, including call to ordinaty telephones? I use 'ihu' as an alternate for skype, but its a peer-to-peer application and for Linux only. AFAIK there is no SIP-based VoIP Software using Tor.

Re: VoIP telephony building like Tor

2009-07-24 Thread Gitano
James Brown wrote: I use 'ihu' as an alternate for skype, but its a peer-to-peer application and for Linux only. AFAIK there is no SIP-based VoIP Software using Tor. Is it possible to call from it to ordinary telephones (insluding mobiles)? Sorry - no, see also:

Re: another bad exit

2009-07-19 Thread Gitano
Scott Bennett wrote: So I tried it again, appending .spacecowboy.exit, and can now confirm that node spacecowboy is indeed returning the error page, rather than simply returning the SOCKS failure, only this time it said that the name server said that the domain name doesn't exist, which

Re: Tor bridge not generating any traffic

2009-06-10 Thread Gitano
Johannes Nitsche wrote: I am trying to operate a tor bridge on my VPS. The system is an Ubuntu hardy the tor version is 0.2.0.34 (r18423). I have attached my configuration file so you can see if there is any error in that one. Regarding the log files I only see one error reported in them:

ExitNodes for encrypted connects only are not possible. Why?

2009-05-09 Thread Gitano
In 'git.torproject.org/checkout/tor/master/doc/spec/dir-spec.txt' ExitNodes are defined as: Exit -- A router is called an 'Exit' iff it allows exits to at least two of the ports 80, 443, and 6667 and allows exits to at least one /8 address space. I would like to setup my ExitNode for

Re: ExitNodes for encrypted connects only are not possible. Why?

2009-05-09 Thread Gitano
Karsten Loesing wrote: Feel free to configure your node to exit to those 5 ports only. That makes your node an exit node for connections to those ports. Your node won't get the Exit flag, though, but that's not required for being an exit node. The Exit flag is used by clients for path

Re: Privoxy change?

2009-05-08 Thread Gitano
Praedor Atrebates wrote: I just upgraded my linux system to Mandriva 2009.1 and installed tor and tork as usual. I have tried to configure privoxy as in the past with a forward- socks4a/localhost:9050 . added at the end of the config file. When privoxy starts, it produces: Starting

Re: Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha STILL BROKEN

2009-01-05 Thread Gitano
Roger Dingledine wrote: I have not been able to continuously run tor since 0.2.0.31. EVERY version since fails to run continuously (0.2.1.7, 0.2.1.8, and now 0.2.1.9). It starts fine, it runs for a while, then simply stops running without any error messages, nothing. It just stops.

Tor-Bridge: DirPort unreachable

2008-12-28 Thread Gitano
Hi, starting my Tor-Server as a bridge (with a clean /var/lib/tor/) I get: Dec 28 20:06:03.406 [notice] Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha (r1) opening log file. Dec 28 20:26:07.562 [warn] Your server (87.122.2.241:9030) has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls,

Re: Tor-Bridge: DirPort unreachable

2008-12-28 Thread Gitano
Roger Dingledine wrote: It's a bug. It's been on my todo list for many months now. It's a harmless bug, so I haven't gotten around to it. For now, you can solve it by turning your DirPort off (bridges don't use dirports). Else continue being patient. :) Thank you, I will do so.

Re: invitation to directory server operators

2008-09-13 Thread Gitano
Scott Bennett wrote: This entry doesn't work on my server (Picolo) even though the flag 'Directory (v2)' is set. Why do you believe it doesn't work? My server is not listed as a HSDir server. There is, however, the requirement that your server be up for at least 24 hours before the

Re: invitation to directory server operators

2008-09-12 Thread Gitano
Scott Bennett wrote: ## The following line enables hidden service directory mirroring. HidServDirectoryV2 1 (Or skip the comment line, and just add the second line, as you please.) Then tell your tor server to reload its torrc file. Within 24 - 25 hours your server will begin operating as

Unable to load consensus directory ...

2008-08-27 Thread Gitano
Any idea what has happened? --- log of picolo --- Aug 27 00:31:56.953 [notice] Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha (r16409) opening new log file. Aug 27 02:38:35.348 [warn] Got a bad signature on a networkstatus vote Aug 27 02:38:35.352 [warn] Got a bad signature on a networkstatus vote Aug 27 02:38:35.356 [warn]

Middleman node 'Gypsy' has been shut down by hoster 'ovh.de'.

2008-08-15 Thread Gitano
On 2008-08-05 my Tor-Server 'Gypsy' has been shut down by 'ovh.de' - supposed due to massive violation of their standard form contracts. No chance to get it back. Sorry folks.

bridge relay with dirport enabled - it does not work!

2008-06-07 Thread Gitano
When I set up my Tor server as a normal relay all works fine: ### Jun 07 18:16:18.673 [notice] Now checking whether ORPort *.*.*.*:443 and DirPort *.*.*.*:9030 are reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- look for log messages indicating success) Jun 07 18:16:24.684 [notice] Self-testing

Re: bridge relay: DirPort unreachable

2008-06-01 Thread Gitano
Roger Dingledine wrote: ---8 May 31 11:53:23.284 [debug] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received response from directory server '*.*.*.*:80': 404 Not found May 31 11:53:23.285 [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received server info (size 0) from server '*.*.*.*:80' May 31

bridge relay: DirPort unreachable

2008-05-31 Thread Gitano
When I start my bridge relay on a dedicated server at home, I get this: ---8 May 31 11:34:28.207 [notice] Self-testing indicates your ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server descriptor. May 31 11:35:37.485 [notice] Performing bandwidth self-test...done. ---8 But after

Re: bridge relay: DirPort unreachable

2008-05-31 Thread Gitano
Roger Dingledine wrote: ---8 May 31 11:53:47.477 [warn] Your server (*.*.*.*:80) has not managed to confirm that its DirPort is reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc. ---8 Are you running something else on port 80? Like, say, a webserver? Yes, a

Re: A root-server for about 30€ for an exitnod e?

2008-02-03 Thread Gitano
Karsten N. wrote: http://www.ovh.de/produkte/isgenug.xml This server has only 256MB RAM. It seems very less for a tor server. That's true, but traffic is unlimited! :) My tor servers take 400 - 450MB RAM. Since I restart Tor on my server (Gypsy2) every midnight, it works fine with a

Re: A root-server for about 30EUR for an exitnode?

2008-02-03 Thread Gitano
Olaf Selke wrote: http://www.ovh.de/produkte/isgenug.xml This server has only 256MB RAM. It seems very less for a tor server. That's true, but traffic is unlimited! :) 100 Mbit/s SLA mit 1000 GB Traffic (anschliessend 5 Mbit/s, sobald der Grenzwert überschritten wurde) ODER 100 Mbit/s

Re: Two little questions: Whats to preferr socks4, 4a or 5? And how to setup Tor in a Lan?

2008-01-10 Thread Gitano
kazaam wrote: And can I setup my Tor-Client that every pc in the lan no matter what IP it has, can use it? Remember: https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#CentralAccessServer It's a better idea, setting up an independent Tor client on every pc for increasing privacy -

Re: Please run a bridge relay!

2008-01-01 Thread Gitano
Andrew Del Vecchio wrote: Gitano, you rock. It finally works without any error messages! Now one final thing: It seems that iptables configs are lost when the computer is shut down. Can I just add this to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or should it be initiated earlier in the boot sequence given

Re: Google becomes usefull for us again

2008-01-01 Thread Gitano
kazaam wrote: Normally I'm using ixquick or seekz but I didn't found something I was looking for so I went on to google. Of course there came this message telling me that my question looks like an automated request blabla.., you know what I mean. But what's new to me was the captcha box

Re: Please run a bridge relay!

2007-12-29 Thread Gitano
Andrew Del Vecchio wrote: I got nothing: Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination This works well for me: --- iptables -t nat -F PREROUTING iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP -i eth0 --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 9001 --- iptables -L -nv

Re: Provider 1blu closed exit node torpaulianer

2007-12-16 Thread Gitano
marcel wrote: AFAIK Strato refused to extend a contract with the CCC, who operated a TOR-Exitnode there. they also refused to close a new contract with the CCC. On 2007-12-11 my contract with Strato was extended for another three months.

Re: Provider 1blu closed exit node torpaulianer

2007-12-15 Thread Gitano
Michael Scheinost wrote: I just want to inform you that the german provider 1blu Ag in Berlin closed down my tor exit node torpaulianer for violating the contract by running malicious software. Same her on 2007-09-10 (Gypsy). So far I didn't had time to answer them on that, but it looks