Firefox configurations for tor with Mac ppc
Hello. Around the first of the year I asked about FF configurations, with Tor, for Mac, Power PC. I was given a link to a site that had the Firefox settings used by Tor. I have been slowly checking each one to see how they compare with the settings I have for my Mac, ppc. I came to one that reads: extensions.lastAppVersion -- with "value" set at 3.5.7 That was when I realized these must be the settings for Windows and not Mac power pc. I looked through or-talk archives and my email to see if I could find that response but had no luck. It was a quick search, I admit. I googled for settings used by Tor for Mac but got nothing. I'm assuming that most configurations will be the same for safety, anonymity and "locking down" the browser, but with some variations. I have found some differences that concern me however. Before I post those, does anyone know of a link I can find "Firefox configurations used by Tor for Mac, ppc" (a mouthful), so that I can cross-check them? thanks very much
Re: Eventdns: All name servers have failed
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:44:30PM -0500, Jon wrote: > After several hours of searching thru the archives, googling, etc; > trying to find answers for what is causing this error and what to do > about it. > > I could find a lot of bug tickets, and a lot of issues about it, but > didn't seem to locate a fix for it except there were several for the > Linux OS. >... > Was there a fix or a solution for it, or was it determined that it was > not important enough to worry about at the time, since generally it > would correct it self with in less than a second most of the time and > continue to work till it happened again? i have been seeing these for a couple of years while running Tor servers on debian and ubuntu and nobody deemed them important enough to worry about and they didnt seem to affect the machine much. perhaps they are of concern for Tor network performance? > I have had 5 of these warnings now in 12 hrs today. To me that seems > kind of excessive, but maybe its just me. > > The last 2 warnings were exactly 1 hour apart. But as I mentioned > earlier, it lasts for last than a second. Yes that is the pattern i see too. *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Eventdns: All name servers have failed
After several hours of searching thru the archives, googling, etc; trying to find answers for what is causing this error and what to do about it. I could find a lot of bug tickets, and a lot of issues about it, but didn't seem to locate a fix for it except there were several for the Linux OS. I did not find anything on the Windows Svr side of the problem. I had this issues with Win Xp, but did not have it with Win 7. Now I am having it with WIn Svr 2008. Was there a fix or a solution for it, or was it determined that it was not important enough to worry about at the time, since generally it would correct it self with in less than a second most of the time and continue to work till it happened again? I have had 5 of these warnings now in 12 hrs today. To me that seems kind of excessive, but maybe its just me. The last 2 warnings were exactly 1 hour apart. But as I mentioned earlier, it lasts for last than a second. Any ideas or solutions? Thanks for the help and assistance. Jon *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: TOR Not Starting after upgrade
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:23:28 -0500 Edward Langenback wrote: >krishna e bera wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:45:56PM -0500, Edward Langenback wrote: I've just upgraded to vidalia-bundle-0.2.1.25-0.2.7.exe and now TOR is not starting at all. I've tried a full uninstall-reinstall with no changes. >>> Any ideas what the problem is? I'm still getting the same behavior >>> after several reboots and complete re-installs. >> >> 1) Your insecurity software may have detected changed .exe files and >>therefore blocked Tor from starting (it is easy to miss the prompt). > >Not too easy to miss in the case of Sygate which puts up a large >'always on top' box asking if the change is ok. > >> 2) The Tor might have started but browsing though it with Firefox >>not be working due to a legacy Privoxy hanging around (it was not >>automatically uninstalled by previous bundles for some reason) >>and occupying port 8118 so Polipo cannot start. > >I did have Privoxy running. After shutting it down progress went from >stuck at 5% to stuck at 80% > >> 3) Check the Tor log file for other possibilities. Check the Windows >>Events log for related System and Application events. > >Even though I had set the firewall to allow TOR, it was being blocked. > After I created an explicit rule for TOR allowing it to connect to >any port, it started working. That's good news. However, it most likely also means that you will need to do something with the firewall every time that you install a new tor. Most firewall/packet filter software for Windows makes a checksum or digest of each program that is allowed to have network access, and when an already approved program tries to use the network, its checksum or digest is calculated afresh and compared with the one already on record. If it has changed, then the current process will be blocked network access until someone approves the new version of the checksum or digest. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * *-- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * ** *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: [or-talk] Re: huge pages, was where are the exit nodes gone?
Scott Bennett wrote: >> >> anonymizer2:~# hugeadm --pool-list >> Size Minimum Current Maximum Default >> 2097152 100 319 1000* >> >> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P COMMAND >> 21716 debian-t 20 0 2075m 1.1g 25m R 95.2 29.4 2020:29 0 tor > > That CPU usage looks pretty high to me, but I still don't know what > you were accustomed to seeing tor use before, so is it higher so far? > Lower? cpu usage is always near 100% as long as being swamped by new circuits. Cpu load seems to rather depend on the number of established tcp connections than on the provided bandwidth. With openbsd-malloc resident process size usually has been far below 1gb even after one or two weeks. Process now with glibc malloc is still eating up memory and I'm sure it will crash within the next days. Total memory is 4 gb: anonymizer2:~# hugeadm --pool-list Size Minimum Current Maximum Default 2097152 100 344 1000* PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ P COMMAND 21716 debian-t 20 0 2702m 1.6g 26m R 88.5 41.8 3383:56 1 tor > Okay. But, again, I'd still like to know whether the hugepages are > helping tor's CPU load or hurting it, and I would need some historical > clues, even if just estimates, to know the answer to that. in any case it doesn't hurt with respect to cpu load. I'm lacking programming skills to make hugepages work with OpenBSD_malloc_Linux coming with the tor sources. So hugepages might reduce load be roughly about 20% with the side effect of getting a memory leak from glibc malloc. @tor developers: Is there any good news for better scalability regarding multiple cores? regards Olaf *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
Re: TOR Not Starting after upgrade
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 krishna e bera wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 09:45:56PM -0500, Edward Langenback wrote: >>> I've just upgraded to vidalia-bundle-0.2.1.25-0.2.7.exe and now TOR is >>> not starting at all. I've tried a full uninstall-reinstall with no >>> changes. >> Any ideas what the problem is? I'm still getting the same behavior >> after several reboots and complete re-installs. > > 1) Your insecurity software may have detected changed .exe files and >therefore blocked Tor from starting (it is easy to miss the prompt). Not too easy to miss in the case of Sygate which puts up a large 'always on top' box asking if the change is ok. > 2) The Tor might have started but browsing though it with Firefox >not be working due to a legacy Privoxy hanging around (it was not >automatically uninstalled by previous bundles for some reason) >and occupying port 8118 so Polipo cannot start. I did have Privoxy running. After shutting it down progress went from stuck at 5% to stuck at 80% > 3) Check the Tor log file for other possibilities. Check the Windows >Events log for related System and Application events. Even though I had set the firewall to allow TOR, it was being blocked. After I created an explicit rule for TOR allowing it to connect to any port, it started working. Thanks for the clues - -- The best way to get past my spam filter is to sign or encrypt your email to me. My PGP KeyId: 0x84D46604 http://blogdoofus.com http://tinfoilchef.com http://www.domaincarryout.com Un-official Freenet 0.5 alternative download http://peculiarplace.com/freenet/ Mixminion Message Sender, Windows GUI Frontend for Mixminion http://peculiarplace.com/mixminion-message-sender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBS8hWwHV+YnyE1GYEAQhEiAgAhLEC7imXB/YruJ7BrTc5RtFNM9+txP00 ZM/fgJyJUT6X+toy6VPhdsYjERg1VHEbWvNxAX36tA2LFyPDWn8c98s7ldU0WjOO 2s9UK7r9KixrPwyoqzQQCqQrF4uX2XNoVYjiWHv/JIRZ7OBn8ZhH0piNnN4DRydo a1q34KWNTgk35r0GTgVDm0PvriOuIpCVlhc7yDN9Kbbu5qJ3yRTa5h0x5SPU/XTr +rjxNNrC9W/oBpRiKmFE4LYPER6dMnSsIyfjHV9DICQXy/d4O3Bqwslhu6NbbUxS LK5afQKl99BTtV8wSQD/C0g5rhB7bXrlqJkPIVgQEeyvn+y2xl0iLA== =5Dk7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- *** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@torproject.org with unsubscribe or-talkin the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
