Re: [tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[Kurt Besig]

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On 12/3/2015 7:04 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
> 
>> On 3 Dec 2015, at 09:44, Kurt Besig > > wrote:
>> 
>> After setting up Tor and tor-arm on the VPS I'm not able to
>> connect with this error: unable to reconnect (connection refused.
>> Is the ControlPort Enabled?) I've edited ~/home/.arm/torrc and
>> /etc/tor/torrc un-commenting the ControlPort 9052 and all the
>> other typical ports, etc..
> 
> I don't have enough information to be sure what's going on:
> 
> What control port is tor actually connected to? (Try "lsof -p
> " or "netstat")
> 
> Can "telnet" or "nc" connect to the port?
> 
> Does your VPS provider block connections from localhost to
> localhost by default? (This is an unusual config, that may be why
> the advice you received didn't help.)
> 
> What else have your tried?
> 
>> Obviously I'm not able to forward or enable ports on the VPS, so
>> do I need to ask the admin to make some changes?
> 
> Possibly. Some VPSs let you modify the firewall settings yourself.
> 
> Tim
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Thank you Tim for an intelligent response, I'll look into your
suggestions.
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Re: [tor-relays] Unbelieveable

[k0nsl]

Hi,
It's difficult to nail down without any actual information to go on.
It's sort of like saying "my back hurts" and asking people what may have
caused it to hurt. You'll get a few random answers, at best.
-k0nsl

Den 12/4/2015 kl. 3:46 AM, skrev Kurt Besig:
> That I got two responses after posting to tor-relays regarding a
> fairly simple, I thought, CntrolPort question on a new VPS relay..
> That's pathetic. Thanks for all your input.
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Re: [tor-relays] Unbelieveable

[Kurt Besig]

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On 12/3/2015 7:11 PM, k0nsl wrote:
> Hi, It's difficult to nail down without any actual information to 
> go on. It's sort of like saying "my back hurts" and asking people 
> what may have caused it to hurt. You'll get a few random answers, 
> at best. -k0nsl
> 
> Den 12/4/2015 kl. 3:46 AM, skrev Kurt Besig:
>> That I got two responses after posting to tor-relays regarding a
>>  fairly simple, I thought, CntrolPort question on a new VPS 
>> relay.. That's pathetic. Thanks for all your input. 
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Well. even a doctor would make a few suggestions based on some sort of
experience based reasoning. Perhaps some connection problems
associated with running tor-arm on a VPS vs. a home server...things of
that nature. Also I was just wondering as I don't see many of the
relay operators that used to post to this list around anymore, has
something changed to make them move on??
Lots of people whining about their consensus weight numbers, but
little of substance being posted.
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Re: [tor-relays] Unbelieveable

[Josef 'veloc1ty' Stautner]

Yeah I see the probleme: Your didn't provide any Config extract nor logs
nor other stuff like that.
Provide your config to see if you made an unix socket or a network
socket or if you set any password. If you set up a network listener
please provide netstat output. Maybe a dumb question: Have you restarted
Tor after you made changes?

Provide information that the community can analyze. Just whining won't help.

~Josef

Am 04.12.2015 um 06:07 schrieb I:
>> Also I was just wondering as I don't see many of the
>> relay operators that used to post to this list around anymore, has
>> something changed to make them move on??
>> Lots of people whining about their consensus weight numbers, but
>> little of substance being posted.
> Well, for me it is obvious. This list is a massive disappointment so I don't 
> wonder why it's quiet.
>
> I thought I was joining a loose but passionate, clever and idealistic 
> community.
> I thought I would learn just being a listener and building my knowledge of 
> security and servers.
>
> In nearly four years I've learned little except not to post unless I'm able 
> to cope with a smack from out of the blue for not knowing.
>
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Re: [tor-relays] Unbelieveable

[Michael McConville]

Kurt Besig wrote:
> Well. even a doctor would make a few suggestions based on some sort of
> experience based reasoning. Perhaps some connection problems
> associated with running tor-arm on a VPS vs. a home server...things of
> that nature. Also I was just wondering as I don't see many of the
> relay operators that used to post to this list around anymore, has
> something changed to make them move on??
> Lots of people whining about their consensus weight numbers, but
> little of substance being posted.

The people who know what they're doing can quickly, reliably
set-and-forget relays. That's the ideal scenario - tweaking knobs is
mostly a liability and performance issues are a development concern.
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[fatal]

>>> I use debian_tor as my tor group, but I don't think that's the
>>> issue.

I use Debian for my VPS and adding the normal system user to debian_tor
group works for me

usermod -a -G debian-tor [user]
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[tor-relays] Unbelieveable

[Kurt Besig]

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That I got two responses after posting to tor-relays regarding a
fairly simple, I thought, CntrolPort question on a new VPS relay..
That's pathetic. Thanks for all your input.
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Re: [tor-relays] VPS Connection Refused

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 3 Dec 2015, at 09:44, Kurt Besig  wrote:
> 
> After setting up Tor and tor-arm on the VPS I'm not able to connect
> with this error: unable to reconnect (connection refused. Is the
> ControlPort Enabled?)
> I've edited ~/home/.arm/torrc and /etc/tor/torrc un-commenting the
> ControlPort 9052 and all the other typical ports, etc..


I don't have enough information to be sure what's going on:

What control port is tor actually connected to? (Try "lsof -p " or 
"netstat")

Can "telnet" or "nc" connect to the port?

Does your VPS provider block connections from localhost to localhost by default?
(This is an unusual config, that may be why the advice you received didn't 
help.)

What else have your tried?

> Obviously I'm
> not able to forward or enable ports on the VPS, so do I need to ask
> the admin to make some changes?

Possibly. Some VPSs let you modify the firewall settings yourself.

Tim

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