> On July 19, 2019 at 1:44 PM Ben Riley <blades1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > To follow up my previous email, I found the "Firewall" app and I've > manually opened 9051 & 8531 in that, and when I tested those via the online > port checking tools, they are now open. > > Restarted TOR (sudo systemctl restart tor) and the logs show it > bootstrapped to 100% and stated the ORPort 9051 is now reachable. > TOR did its bandwidth self-test.....done. > > Should that now be working ok?
Yes, the logs look good. I think the ORPort indeed needs to be reachable for a bridge. You could try testing your own bridge using Tor Browser [1] or a Tails DVD [2]. Or wait a few hours (or weeks for the graphs) and look up your bridge on Tor Relay Search [3]. [1] https://www.torproject.org/download/ [2] https://tails.boum.org/ [3] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html# > Log now reads: > > Jul 19 21:31:43 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 10% (conn_done): > > Connected to a relay > > Jul 19 21:31:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 14% (handshake): > > Handshaking with a relay > > Jul 19 21:31:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 15% > > (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done > > Jul 19 21:31:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 75% > > (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits > > Jul 19 21:31:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 90% > > (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits > > Jul 19 21:31:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 95% > > (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit > > Jul 19 21:31:45 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Guessed our IP address as > > 158.140.206.75 (source: 217.182.196.67). > > Jul 19 21:31:46 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Bootstrapped 100% (done): Done > > Jul 19 21:31:46 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Now checking whether ORPort > > 158.140.206.75:9051 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- > > look for log messages indicating success) > > Jul 19 21:31:49 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Self-testing indicates your > > ORPort is reachable from the outside. Excellent. Publishing server > > descriptor. > > Jul 19 21:32:14 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: New control connection opened. > > Jul 19 21:33:05 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Your network connection speed > > appears to have changed. Resetting timeout to 60s after 18 timeouts and 129 > > buildtimes. > > Jul 19 21:33:07 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[8779]: Performing bandwidth > > self-test...done. > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:41 PM Ben Riley <blades1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for that. So I tried as you suggested and edited (gedit) the torrc > > file, replacing the obfs4 from 443 to 8531. > > I also added a port forward for that port on my router. > > Restarted TOR and the log file shows that it made a circuit (Bootstrapped > > 100%). > > I can now run nyx and see that TOR is trying to make connections. > > As per the log below, it seems that ORPort 9051 is unreachable (which is > > true according to a port checker) > > Though I've got the following ports forwarded on the router 9050, 9051, > > 443 & 8531 - 9001 is NOT forwarded though. > > > > Now the log says this: > > > >> Jul 19 19:53:58 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15447]: Jul 19 19:53:58.969 [notice] > >> Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, > >> Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15447]: Jul 19 19:53:58.970 [notice] > >> Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at > >> https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15447]: Jul 19 19:53:58.990 [notice] > >> Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc". > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15447]: Jul 19 19:53:58.990 [notice] > >> Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15447]: Jul 19 19:53:58.997 [notice] > >> Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can > >> override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15447]: Configuration was valid > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.210 [notice] > >> Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, > >> Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd 1.3.3. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.210 [notice] > >> Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at > >> https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.210 [notice] > >> Read configuration file "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc". > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.210 [notice] > >> Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc". > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.214 [notice] > >> Based on detected system memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can > >> override this by setting MaxMemInQueues by hand. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Opened Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Opening OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Opened OR listener on 0.0.0.0:9051 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Opening Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:0 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Extended OR listener listening on port 36399. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 tor[15449]: Jul 19 19:53:59.215 [notice] > >> Opened Extended OR listener on 127.0.0.1:36399 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Tor 0.4.0.5 running on Linux > >> with Libevent 2.1.8-stable, OpenSSL 1.1.1, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and > >> Libzstd 1.3.3. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Tor can't help you if you > >> use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at > >> https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Read configuration file > >> "/usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc". > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Read configuration file > >> "/etc/tor/torrc". > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Based on detected system > >> memory, MaxMemInQueues is set to 2862 MB. You can override this by setting > >> MaxMemInQueues by hand. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opening Socks listener on > >> 127.0.0.1:9050 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opened Socks listener on > >> 127.0.0.1:9050 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opening OR listener on > >> 0.0.0.0:9051 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opened OR listener on > >> 0.0.0.0:9051 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opening Extended OR listener > >> on 127.0.0.1:0 > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Extended OR listener > >> listening on port 36399. > >> Jul 19 19:53:59 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opened Extended OR listener > >> on 127.0.0.1:36399 > >> Jul 19 19:54:04 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Parsing GEOIP IPv4 file > >> /usr/share/tor/geoip. > >> Jul 19 19:54:04 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Parsing GEOIP IPv6 file > >> /usr/share/tor/geoip6. > >> Jul 19 19:54:04 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Configured to measure > >> statistics. Look for the *-stats files that will first be written to the > >> data directory in 24 hours from now. > >> Jul 19 19:54:04 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Your Tor server's identity > >> key fingerprint is 'MelbTORbridge 9F19251CEE17B1E05084898D164F0544CCB095DD' > >> Jul 19 19:54:04 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Your Tor bridge's hashed > >> identity key fingerprint is 'MelbTORbridge > >> E4AF099DA5946A6D6EA65DC55B517D3F9B12D0ED' > >> Jul 19 19:54:04 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 0% (starting): > >> Starting > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Starting with guard context > >> "default" > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Signaled readiness to systemd > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 5% (conn): > >> Connecting to a relay > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Registered server transport > >> 'obfs4' at '[::]:8531' > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opening Socks listener on > >> /run/tor/socks > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opened Socks listener on > >> /run/tor/socks > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opening Control listener on > >> /run/tor/control > >> Jul 19 19:54:16 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Opened Control listener on > >> /run/tor/control > >> Jul 19 19:54:17 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 10% > >> (conn_done): Connected to a relay > >> Jul 19 19:54:17 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 14% > >> (handshake): Handshaking with a relay > >> Jul 19 19:54:18 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 15% > >> (handshake_done): Handshake with a relay done > >> Jul 19 19:54:18 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 20% > >> (onehop_create): Establishing an encrypted directory connection > >> Jul 19 19:54:18 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 25% > >> (requesting_status): Asking for networkstatus consensus > >> Jul 19 19:54:18 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 50% > >> (loading_descriptors): Loading relay descriptors > >> Jul 19 19:54:18 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Guessed our IP address as > >> 158.140.206.75 (source: 185.103.110.144). > >> Jul 19 19:54:20 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: I learned some more > >> directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We have no recent > >> usable consensus. > >> Jul 19 19:54:21 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: I learned some more > >> directory information, but not enough to build a circuit: We're missing > >> descriptors for 1/2 of our primary entry guards (total microdescriptors: > >> 5382/6384). > >> Jul 19 19:54:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 75% > >> (enough_dirinfo): Loaded enough directory info to build circuits > >> Jul 19 19:54:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 90% > >> (ap_handshake_done): Handshake finished with a relay to build circuits > >> Jul 19 19:54:25 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 95% > >> (circuit_create): Establishing a Tor circuit > >> Jul 19 19:54:27 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Bootstrapped 100% (done): > >> Done > >> Jul 19 19:54:27 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Now checking whether ORPort > >> 158.140.206.75:9051 is reachable... (this may take up to 20 minutes -- > >> look for log messages indicating success) > >> Jul 19 19:55:35 ben-OptiPlex-755 dbus-daemon[3325]: [session uid=1000 > >> pid=3325] Activating service name='org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider' > >> requested by ':1.262' (uid=1000 pid=8482 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell " > >> label="unconfined") > >> Jul 19 19:55:36 ben-OptiPlex-755 dbus-daemon[3325]: [session uid=1000 > >> pid=3325] Successfully activated service > >> 'org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider' > >> Jul 19 19:55:42 ben-OptiPlex-755 nautilus[15604]: Could not get mtime for > >> 'file:///home/ben/.cache/tracker/meta.db': Error when getting information > >> for file “/home/ben/.cache/tracker/meta.db”: No such file or directory > >> Jul 19 19:55:43 ben-OptiPlex-755 bijiben-shell-s[15603]: Could not get > >> mtime for 'file:///home/ben/.cache/tracker/meta.db': Error when getting > >> information for file “/home/ben/.cache/tracker/meta.db”: No such file or > >> directory > >> Jul 19 19:55:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 tracker-store[3751]: Error opening > >> database: Could not open sqlite3 > >> database:'/home/ben/.cache/tracker/meta.db': unable to open database file > >> Jul 19 19:55:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 tracker-store[3751]: > >> tracker_sparql_query_exec_sql_cursor: assertion 'iface != NULL' failed > >> Jul 19 19:55:44 ben-OptiPlex-755 tracker-store[3751]: ___lambda11_: > >> assertion 'cursor != NULL' failed > >> Jul 19 19:55:49 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: New control connection > >> opened. > >> Jul 19 19:55:56 ben-OptiPlex-755 org.gnome.bijiben.SearchProvider[3325]: > >> Unable to load location /home/ben/.local/share/bijiben: Error opening > >> directory '/home/ben/.local/share/bijiben': No such file or directory > >> Jul 19 20:03:43 ben-OptiPlex-755 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[8482]: Window > >> manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a > >> timestamp of 0 for 0x6e00084 (torrc (/et) > >> Jul 19 20:14:38 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[15449]: Your server ( > >> 158.140.206.75:9051) has not managed to confirm that its ORPort is > >> reachable. Relays do not publish descriptors until their ORPort and DirPort > >> are reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts > >> file, etc. > >> > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 6:34 PM < > > dmz...@ziggo.nl> wrote: > > > >> > >> > On July 19, 2019 at 6:36 AM Ben Riley <blades1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I ran that command way back at the start. I'm > >> > assuming I don't have to run it every time the machine reboots or > >> updates? > >> > I ran it again this morning and it made no difference. > >> > > >> > Ah logs, you say that like I know where those are :P > >> > When I run sudo tail /var/log/tor/log - I get nothing. > >> > I found the Logs app and run that to get all the system logs - way too > >> much > >> > stuff and I couldn't move it to here, so I found this command (Google) > >> cat > >> > /var/log/syslog | grep tor -i and got the following (I think I've > >> included > >> > 2 set of attempts to boot up): > >> > > >> > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Starting with guard context > >> > > "default" > >> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Signaled readiness to > >> systemd > >> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bootstrapped 5% (conn): > >> > > Connecting to a relay > >> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Server managed proxy > >> > > encountered a method error. (obfs4 listen tcp 0.0.0.0:443: bind: > >> > > permission denied) > >> > >> I ran (and keep running) into the same problem (but on Debian), even > >> after the fix suggested below. > >> Could you please try an unused port above 1024, like 8531? That resolved > >> this issue for me. > >> > >> hope this helps and kind regards. > >> > >> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Managed proxy at > >> > > '/usr/bin/obfs4proxy' failed the configuration protocol and will be > >> > > destroyed. > >> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: tor_assertion_failed_(): > >> Bug: > >> > > ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836: > >> managed_proxy_stdout_callback: > >> > > Assertion mp->conf_state == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed; aborting. (on > >> Tor > >> > > 0.4.0.5 ) > >> > > Jul 19 14:32:23 ben-OptiPlex-755 Tor[28002]: Bug: Assertion > >> mp->conf_state > >> > > == PT_PROTO_COMPLETED failed in managed_proxy_stdout_callback at > >> > > ../src/feature/client/transports.c:1836. Stack trace: (on Tor 0.4.0.5 > >> ) > >> > >> (removed rest of log) > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:12 AM Philipp Winter <p...@torproject.org> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 12:50:34PM +1000, Ben Riley wrote: > >> > > > Then I saw the above email about being a bridge and thought, fine, > >> I'll > >> > > > configure it to be a bridge and help out someone. > >> > > > Tried to do it via the docker/script method, but soon realised that > >> was > >> > > > outside my skill level (hey stop laughing! :P) > >> > > > >> > > Did you run into any specific issues? If you had troubles following > >> the > >> > > guide, I'm gonna blame the guide. > >> > > > >> > > > Setting ORPort to 443 as suggested. I forwarded that port on the > >> > > > router and then tested it, but it said it was closed. So I thought > >> my > >> > > > router was playing up. I checked a few other ports using online > >> tools > >> > > > and a few of them were closed. I forwarded a new another port to > >> some > >> > > > other software on another machine and that worked?! So I realised > >> the > >> > > > ports are open on the router but closed on the ubuntu machine. I've > >> > > > played around with all the settings, changed by torrc file to a > >> really > >> > > > basic one of: > >> > > > >> > > To run obfs4 on port 443, you will have to run the following command, > >> to > >> > > allow obfs4proxy to bind to port 443: > >> > > > >> > > sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /usr/bin/obfs4proxy > >> > > > >> > > If you did that already, it would be helpful to see your logs. > >> > > > >> > > Cheers, > >> > > Philipp > >> > > _______________________________________________ > >> > > tor-relays mailing list > >> > > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > >> > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >> > > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > tor-relays mailing list > >> > tor-relays@lists.torproject.org > >> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >> > > _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
