Thanks for the clear explanation, it makes perfect sense. - eliaz On 4/12/2013 7:13 AM, Justin Aplin wrote: > On 4/12/2013 2:09 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Can someone tell me if I have to do something about geoip6 warnings? >> >> I've got a bridge relay running from a vista x64 machine. As with the >> past few TBB versions I'm still getting occasional message-log warnings: >> >> "Failed to open GEOIP file C:\Users\,<acctname>\AppData\Roaming >> \tor\geoip6." > > Geoip6 is simply a text list of the approximate physical address of IPv6 > addresses. Having this makes it easy to do things like display the > locations of exits on a map (as Vidalia can do). It's not at all > necessary for Tor to work properly, and won't affect either client or > server function, but it's a nifty feature. > >> \AppData\Roaming\tor doesn't exist, nor does the subfolder >> \geoip6, as I'm running the bridge from from TBB installed on a USB >> stick. The installation seems correct, my geoip is in the data >> directory as usual. As far as I can tell the bridge is connecting to >> circuits as it should (though it's not carrying as much traffic as >> previously). > > If you like, you can grab geoip6 from [1] and save it in your data > directory alongside geoip. If that doesn't fix the message, you can add > the following line to your torrc: > GeoIPv6File \path\to\your\datadir\geoip6 > >> I did find some discussion in bug tracker, but it's months old and >> doesn't suggest anything that I can do. >> >> So, do these warnings even apply to my relay installation? Can I >> just ignore them? > > Feel free to ignore them; the only thing that will happen is that IPv6 > exits won't show up on Vidalia's map. Traffic won't be affected in any way. > > [1] > https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/src/config/geoip6 > > ~Justin Aplin > > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >
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