On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:32:15PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 0.8K bytes in
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: Yes, please come out with a ready server package. I am
: a noob who sometimes don't even understand the
: messages in the log (and not at all the debug log).
Tor is a server and client in the same package. Configuring Tor
as a server is easy. Configuring the rest of your network and
firewalls to allow traffic to ebb and flow is not always so
easy. Even there existed a LiveCD for a Tor server that
magically configures itself on start, getting it to work with
the network isn't so "boot and run" easy. There is a 3-step
process to getting a Tor server up and running:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#CanIJustConfigureAndRun
Or you can use Vidalia to make it easier. The hard part is
firewalls, NAT, port forwarding, etc. Universal Plug and Play
(UPNP) is used by some vendors to make their software
autoconfigure the network for you. Most security conscious
people disable UPNP because of the poor implementations from a
security perspective. Search the web for "UPNP exploits", for an
example. Therefore, this makes the problem set Tor has to test
and solve far more complex. We rely upon the user to know their
network better than Tor can ever ascertain.
Our FAQ tries to answer many of these questions for you. Or,
there is OR-TALK for help. If our documentation is lacking,
please let us know how to make it more clear and better. We'll
also happily accept updates to the wiki or patches to the actual
docs.
We'll happily accept "Tor Server in a box" type bundles. If you
can magically figure out the networking parts of it, "go you!"
--
Andrew
