First install the tor software on the scharnhorst host (FC5).
I first tried my CentOS 4.5 host, but I could not get the software installed, could not find proper rpms, could not find rpms to install yum either.
Now I have had IP address 88.211.133.30 for about 3 years now, and it has changed since last night, I now have 195.241.35.97 .
This has nothing to do with me setting up a tor node, but probably due to the merge of my provider speedlinq with Telfort, the FAQ page tells me that addresse will be changed (with prior otice, but that didn't happen) anyway I changed my CNAME record of www.computerhok.nl, and also torrc:Address to 195.241.35.97.
When you tor decides that it's reachable, it will upload a "server descriptor" to the directories. This will let clients know what address, ports, keys, etc your relay is using.
Check it here
I found torstatus.cyberphunk.org , it shows quite a lot of information, it also tells you if you are using tor yourself.
It gives an exensive lists of tor nodes with a lot attributes like
I first had to dramatically increase the UBC's for the VPS, expecially the tcprcvbuf tcpsndbuff .
I also lowered the ConnLimit to 250.
Now also Google starts to nag me with Captcha's, telling me that I have spyware or bot coming from my IP adres, I had that the first day, the second day not anymore. (Was this because of TOR or because of the IP adres change ?)
Tor has it's own control protocol. If you specified the ControlListenAddress or ControlPort option, it starts to listen on this port. You can the (very basic duh) open a telnet connection to this port and talk the control protocol A few examples:
the version of the tor agent on my system is too old, I get the following in the tor log:
routers_update_all_from_networkstatus(): Please upgrade! This version of Tor (0.1.1.26) is obsolete, according to 3/3 network statuses. Versions recommended by at least 1 authority are: 0.1.2.19, 0.2.0.11-alpha, 0.2.0.12-alpha, 0.2.0.15-alpha, 0.2.0.18-alpha, 0.2.0.19-alpha, 0.2.0.22-rc
Upgrading was not really an option, it had too many dependencies, I would have to upgrade the whole OS.
I constantly get prompted with Captchas when searching Google
2009-01-17 reinstalled tor
on newer infrastructure (Ubuntu 8.04 OpenVZ VPS). (tor version 0.1.2.19) and fibre to the home 35 Mb up/download
VPS scharnhorst with DNS tor.computerhok.nl
not an exit node anymore
configs (other then the defaults):
Log info file /var/log/tor/debug.log
Nickname ComputerhokTOR
Address tor.computerhok.nl
BandwidthRate 1000 KB # Throttle traffic to 100KB/s (800Kbps)
BandwidthBurst 2000 KB # But allow bursts up to 200KB/s (1600Kbps)
ContactInfo harry.metske@gmail.com
ORPort 9001
ExitPolicy reject *:* # no exits allowed
increased openvz beancounters numtcpsock from 500 to 3000, and tcprcvbuf from ? to 10000000
TOR Setup#
The Onion Routing Network, see also torproject page
Table of Contents
Installation / configuration#
First install the tor
software on the scharnhorst host (FC5).
I first tried my CentOS 4.5 host, but I could not get the software installed, could not find proper rpms, could not find rpms to install yum either.
Port forwarding 9001#
The ORPort has been configured on 9001, this port configured in my routermodem, so that this port is forwarde to scharnhorst (10.0.0.102)
Edit /etc/tor/torrc#
The following options were uncommented or changed from default:
IP address changed ?!#
Now I have had IP address 88.211.133.30 for about 3 years now, and it has changed since last night, I now have 195.241.35.97 .
This has nothing to do with me setting up a tor node, but probably due to the merge of my provider speedlinq with Telfort, the FAQ page tells me that addresse will be changed (with prior otice, but that didn't happen) anyway I changed my CNAME record of www.computerhok.nl, and also torrc:Address to 195.241.35.97.
Verifying your node#
When you tor decides that it's reachable, it will upload a "server descriptor" to the directories. This will let clients know what address, ports, keys, etc your relay is using.
Check it here
Install Vidalia#
Install of the Vidalia GUI
Open up System->Preferences->Software Sources and enter these repositories into 3rd Party Repositories:
Then: sudo apt-get install vidalia
The vialia software cannot show me the stats of a tor node running on another server, so I uninstalled it again.
Statistics#
I found torstatus.cyberphunk.org
, it shows quite a lot of information, it also tells you if you are using tor yourself.
It gives an exensive lists of tor nodes with a lot attributes like
Another interesting statistics site is http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index.php
You can also zoom into the stats of my own ComputerhokTOR
How does it run#
I first had to dramatically increase the UBC's for the VPS, expecially the tcprcvbuf tcpsndbuff .
I also lowered the ConnLimit to 250.
Now also Google starts to nag me with Captcha's, telling me that I have spyware or bot coming from my IP adres, I had that the first day, the second day not anymore. (Was this because of TOR or because of the IP adres change ?)
Control protocol#
Tor has it's own control protocol. If you specified the ControlListenAddress or ControlPort option, it starts to listen on this port. You can the (very basic duh) open a telnet connection to this port and talk the control protocol
A few examples:
Status#
I stopped the tor agent for two reasons:
- the version of the tor agent on my system is too old, I get the following in the tor log:
Upgrading was not really an option, it had too many dependencies, I would have to upgrade the whole OS.