I'm new to Tor (and pseudo-new to Iptables), but not a unix newbie (started in '88) - however, I've literally spent the last 24 hours trying to get the few complete and/or relevant HowTo's I could find for Tor/IPTables/CentOS to work - without success.
I'm trying to implement a transparent proxy on a CentOS 6.5 machine that I'm going to use as a desktop. I don't want to use the Tor Browser, but would rather have then "entire" system Tor'd (I realize there are leak potentials). I have a static public IP I am using directly on this single network port machine. With a default IPTables config, and no Tor installed/configured, I can ping the internet and browse without issue. This tutorial: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TransparentProxy#Transpare ntlyRoutingTrafficThroughTor My system doesn't like the Tor configuration, but the IPTables script seems to run correctly. After editing resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1, DNS does not resolve (hangs), so that appears to be a bust. I pulled the Tor config from this one: http://www.digitalarmedforces.org/index.php/8-linux/19-how-to-setup-tor-as-a -transparent-proxy-on-ubuntu-linux but their IPTables config doesn't seem to hold after restart. Using their Tor config with the previous IPTables script seems most complete (everything starts without failures, logs look happy), but still no DNS resolution (hangs). Other tutorials I've found have depreciated config options, or are for different Linux versions, and that seems to create problems. I did finally figure out that SELinux had to be uninstalled to get past some config file permission access issues, but other than that, every time I try to connect to check.torproject.org, it says "sorry" if it can resolve at all. Anyone know of a good, current set of tutorials that works? I'd really appreciate the help. The Tor website doesn't seem to have any examples that are updated, or that I can get to work or are relevant. It does seem like everyone is saying "it's simple, just do this" but copy/pasting their stuff doesn't work (I do change the machine IP in scripts as needed). And it really does seem like it should be simple, as there are only a couple ways to use it, and a couple options to set. CentOS 6.5 build (core i7, Tor yum installed, fully yum updated) Tor 0.2.9.12-1 (EL6) Iptables 1.4.7-16 I also tried a CentOS 7.x build, but had no luck there either (similar results). Thanks. Jeff Newman -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk