Questions tagged [network-configuration]
This tag should be used for questions about configuring a network (most likely configuring the Tor-network).
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Torsocks --address ca only be IP but not a hostname?
I noticed if I make wget requests over torsocks and I specify --address, this only works if the address is an actual IP but NOT a hostname, is this correct ?
So this works:
torsocks --address 123.123....
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How do I decrease Tor's network traffic overhead?
How can I configure Tor to use a minimum of overhead network traffic?
My situation:
I have a weather station connected to a Raspberry Pi in a cottage, with a 4G USB dongle for network connectivity. ...
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Tor Browser on Mac: Error "553 Unable to set option: Failed to bind one of the listener ports"
I'm encountering an issue with the Tor Browser on my Mac. Every time I try to connect, I receive the following error message:
SETCONF DisableNetwork=0 -> 553 Unable to set option: Failed to bind ...
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I'm installing Chutney to try to emulate a private TOR network
My goal is to create a private Tor network in order to first de-anonymize a user and then develop a patch to address the issue. Currently, I have decided to create the Tor network using Chutney. ...
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Unable to find IPv6 address for ORPort 4xxxx. You might want to specify IPv4Only to it or set an explicit address or set Address
As I have very limited ISP options, the one I chose is not IPv6-capable.
In nyx this message popped up onto me:
Unable to find IPv6 address for ORPort 4xxxx. You might want to specify IPv4Only to it ...
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Bridge - Why do I need 2 different ports open?
I am in the process of setting up my first Tor Bridge:
Bridge <firgerprint redacted> advertises:
* obfs4: functional
Last tested: 2023-08-12 03:23:02.954463531 +0000 UTC (43m55.667246855s ago)...
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Enable IPv6 on middle/guard relay but IPv6 does not work properly
I used the following command to ping the IPv6 addresses of Tor directory authorities from my server (as described here under 7. https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/post-install/):
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Is there a way to make Tor more performant and reliable, if necessary at the cost of sacrificing some privacy?
I have an enterprise use case, where we need to ping a lot of different onion nodes at once, as fast and as reliably as possible.
I have some ideas related to forcing a specific circuit made only of ...
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Why do some apps break with Tor over Tor (Whonix, TAILS)?
Some apps (which have a built-in Tor daemon) will not work on TAILS or Whonix (ie systems that force all their traffic though the Tor network) because this creates a Tor-over-Tor connection. Why?
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Tor Browser doesn't work on Win10 after update
So I'm trying to open Tor Browser but it's just doesn't open and shows me this empty message box:
I've done some research and found some solution with windows firewall but it didn't help at all:
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Connected to a tor relay failed (TLS_ERROR - 192.0.2.2:2). Error when trying to connect to tor
I am trying to connect to tor but I get the error: Connected to a tor relay failed (TLS_ERROR - 192.0.2.2:2)
I only get that error when using the meek-azure built-in bridge, when I use any other ...
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Error accessing onion service websites
When I access sites on the onion network, I get the following error: [warn] Onion address [scrubbed] requested from a port with .onion disabled how do I solve this problem?
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Tor wont connect all of a sudden
Ive used tor regularily for along time, yesterday I installed Avast and Tor stopped working, I've remove avast and fixed all the settings I can think of but the log still says this:
1/28/22, 05:02:55....
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Public network safe with TOR?
As I know, public networks are highly dangerous for normal people as hacker can obtain their private data. One way to prevent this is using a VPN, since after the connection everything is encrypted.
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Is it possible to use Tor without Tor network?
I like the feature subset Tor has from firefox and the hardened settings. I also like the IP hiding I get when using Tor for personal browsing. Sometimes however, the Tor network gets in the way when ...
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I cant get ExitNodes { } working
I've come across a bunch of posts covering this, with answers ranging from "update tor" to "this feature got removed"... and none of them helped me.
I run tor in alpine docker, ...
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Multiple hidden services on one server
How is it that I can host multiple (static) hidden services on one server?
I am just needing 3 simple and static HTML sites with their own .onion?
If I add multiple HiddenServiceDir do they have to be ...
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Encrypted DNS without Tor Browser Bundle
If using Tor and NOT Tor Browser Bundle, do you need to encrypt your dns or is setting your DNS on router to Cloudflare DNS sufficient?
wanting to obfuscate all DNS from view of ISP
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How to use VPN with Tor network?
There are many VPNs and some of them can be used with Tor network depending on the setup. There are two ways to use a VPN with the Tor browser. You can either connect to the VPN first and then the Tor ...
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When new versions of the tor client stop supporting v2 addresses, will old clients still be able to access v2 addresses?
I have an application that uses v2 addresses-- if both ends (the hidden-service client and the hidden-service server) continue to use older tor client software (that "supports v2 addresses"),...
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Mosh (UDP) over Tor, instead of SSH over Tor?
Benefit that I'm looking for:
Tor is slow. When SSH'ing over Tor doing even the basic things takes a lot of time and concentration
Especially painful are: editing a file or a mistyped command line ...
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Obsf4 bridges with ipv6 support?
Where can I find obfs4 bridges with ipv6 support for Tails?
This link doesn't work:
https://bridges.torproject.org/options
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Creating private and isolated Tor network using raspberry pis
I am thinking about setting up a private Tor network isolated from the Internet. My plan is to connect about 10 raspberry pis to an ethernet switch. I would run a client, a hidden service in two ...
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How do i block websites in the tor browser, productivity filter
I need to block a bunch of different websites, otherwise my productivity goes to crap.
There have been a couple of questions asked here, but no one has given a good answer that I can see.
How to block ...
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Change IP address used by TOR connections
I have configured a TOR hidden service using the default setup, meaning that requests come from 127.0.0.1. Is there a way to set up a different subnet to divide TOR connections from localhost ones?
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Configure for one hop only
I am using Tor only as a cheap proxy. I want to avoid the target website from knowing my IP address and my threat vector does not include any other types of surveillance.
Is there a way to switch to ...
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Can't access hidden service after hostname switch
I made my own hidden service using this guide: https://medium.com/@ajphillips/how-to-create-your-own-tor-hidden-service-436bece8602f
Everything worked fine using the generated hostname I received ...
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Why am I seeing inbound connections to 127.0.0.1 when launching Tor?
When I launch Firefox, before interacting with the browser, I normally see a couple of outbound connections.
$ sudo netstat --tcp --all --numeric --program | grep ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 10....
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TOR ORPort Unreachable
I've setup a middle relay on ubuntu (virtual machine) and a bridge on Windows. However, on both OS's I'm facing the same issue as mentioned in the title.
For bridge relay, I've opened the ports in ...
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Hardening the network on the host
I’m trying to harden my host to not leak anything to clearnet.
I have an idea to get EntryNodes IP addresses from TorProject site, add them to iptables as allowed, and prohibit other traffic.
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Cannot log into Tor
The browser is saying, "tor failed to establish a tor network connection.
"Starting failed (no route to host - 66.206.0.82:9001)
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How do you access Blockchain's tor hidden service?
I'm trying to access Blockchain's tor hidden service on tor in order to make a wallet over tor, but everytime I try to access the onion link they give me on blockchain's website, it always times out. ...
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Are Tor connections *that* unstable?
I'm okay with the Tor network being slow, but I often have the issue that I can't connect to my own hidden services at all. I imagine the problem are the nodes in between, because sometime later then ...
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tor and private proxy still not enough
I am connecting to a tor circuit from behind a private proxy server. All the websites I check are not able to determine my location, but I know that someone is able to identify me by the default ...
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What is a private Tor network
While reading about botnets leveraging Tor hidden services for command and control I came across a term I have never seen or read about anywhere a private Tor network I tried researching this term ...
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Am I screwed up forever once I logged into eduroam?
I use cyberghost VPN, Tor, and am tring to install Tails. I concern most about is, on campus I only have two options for network: Eduroam and guest WiFi.
I have several questions:
Guest wifi does ...
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Tor Filetransfer (FTP) for Webhoster
I'm building a hidden service hosting provider and actually I'm able to run a web-/ and Mysql Server full proxied over the tor network. But I'm wondering how I could realize a file-transfer protocol ...
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tor does not work anymore
Since 1 week I can not launch tor I looked a lot of forum but none really talk about my problem, when I run it said unexpectedly exited tor ..... I tried bridges and proxy it does not work so I put my ...
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How do we extend our privacy on TOR circuit?
The Tor Browser bounces your communications data through distributed network of relays by encrypting traffic in at least three layers
selected from thousands of volunteer computers, thus making ...
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How are certain websites able to override the specific exitnode you chose, and can a fix be made to stop it?
I've followed the instructions in the posts about using a specific exitnode, and I've added the following to my torrc:
ExitNodes 719FD0FA327F3CCBCDA0D4EA74C15EA110338942
StrictNodes 1
As you can see,...
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Set up Tor as internal Network
My company is looking to use Tor internally for our network, using our own directory authority server, and would like to know if it's possible and how to do it
Bonus points if we could use it for ...
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cant connect to tor
11/22/18, 00:40:39.932 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.
11/22/18, 00:40:39.932 [NOTICE] ...
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Pointing multiple .onion domains at one website? Each on separate server?
Just playing around for fun and knowledge with this. I have a Tor blog, simple informational site that I just toy around with as I enjoy experimenting with Tor technology.
What I would like to do is ...
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Is Tor network traceable
I am curious how I can rely on Tor network in terms of traceability.
I am looking for really professional who can say if my Tor communication is secure, if a Tor exit node is detectable or traceable....
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Host hidden service without accepting incoming connections?
So I am building a p2p network, it will be almost entirely comprised of nodes running on mobile phones and so therefore they will not have public IP addresses and will not be able to accept incoming ...
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Dirport / Orport stop being unreachable after some time
Just set up a Tor relay on Digital Ocean running Ubuntu 16.04 using tor-relay.co and everything is seemingly going well. However, every so often the relay will cease to work and I'll get the following ...
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tor failed to establish a network connection
IDK whats the problem, it worked till now.
Blockquote 7/10/2018 13:08:01 PM.600 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all ...
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Private tor network set up
I am working on tor network security. I planned to set up my tor node setup with 3 nodes : entry,middle and exit node. I don't want to work on real time client's data.
Is it any way to not publish ...
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I have a problem connecting to Tor network [duplicate]
this is the data it shows, please help!
thanks
3/18/2018 00:44:41.500 [NOTICE] DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control network connections. Shutting down all existing ...
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How to submit suggestions to tor project?
I have some suggestions for Tor Browser Interface.
The configuration option which configures what ports tor browser connects through has been moved to a place where it does not appear when the ...
