On 19 Mar 2009, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> I have just installed installed Tor in Firefox using the Ubuntu tor
> and tor-button packages.
>
> When I run the check it fails even though the tor and the privoxy
> daemons are running.

Have a look at your logs - /var/log/tor/log (accessible only to root).
It'll at least show if it can connect to other tor nodes.

> It tries to reach check.torproject.org but the DNS is not resolved; in
> fact that domain name is a CNAME for null.lostinthenoise.net which is
> what is not resolving.

check.torproject.org.   3452    IN      CNAME   null.lostinthenoise.net.
null.lostinthenoise.net. 3455   IN      A       209.237.247.84

working for me now - perhaps it was just an intermittent or local issue?

-- 
-rob

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