> On 30 Apr 2016, at 04:05, Nicholas R. Parker (RIT Student) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Managed to successfully generate all necessary certificates, keys, etc. but 
> I'm having a problem with changes to the torrc file.
> 
> The tor process starts up without any issue using the default torrc file (as 
> one would expect), but no longer starts after the file has been edited with 
> the directory authority configuration options.
> 
> When starting the tor process via service tor start it shows the process as 
> active, but a netstat -anlp | grep tor shows no tor processes running 
> anywhere at all

What does the tor log say?
What did you do to try and fix it?

> 
> ####Edited Torrc###
> 
> TestingTorNetwork 1
> DataDirectory /root/Downloads/tor
> RunAsDaemon 1
> ConnLimit 60
> Nickname testAuth
> ShutdownWaitLength 0
> PidFile /var/lib/tor/pid
> Log notice file /root/Downloads/tor/notice.log
> Log info file /root/Downloads/tor/info.log
> ProtocolWarnings 1
> SafeLogging 0
> DisableDebuggerAttachment 0
> DirAuthority Unnamed orport=5000 no-v2 hs 
> v3ident=11B12259013712F46B22A38BBA83F8E68DB48800 192.168.136.129:7000 
> 456CD98153967845CE13084A193F69016281DCAD
> 
> SocksPort 0
> OrPort 5000
> Address 192.168.136.129
> DirPort 7000
> 
> # An exit policy that allows exiting to IPv4 LAN
> ExitPolicy accept 192.168.1.0/24:*
> 
> # An exit policy that allows exiting to IPv6 localhost
> ExitPolicy accept [::1]:*
> IPv6Exit 1
> 
> AuthoritativeDirectory 1
> V3AuthoritativeDirectory 1
> ContactInfo [email protected]
> ExitPolicy reject *:*
> TestingV3AuthInitialVotingInterval 300
> TestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay 20
> TestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay 20
> 
> Nicholas R. Parker
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> 5thYear, BS/MS Computing Security
> 585-794-0029 / [email protected]
> 
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:41 PM, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On 11 Apr 2016, at 09:28, Nicholas R. Parker (RIT Student) 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > We've looked into Chutney, but we're looking at building out a whole 
> > network for various research purposes (I'm just the grad grunt, whatever 
> > research plans they have are above me!)
> > It looks like you're saying that we could use chutney to at least generate 
> > all of the base configuration files, is that right?
> 
> I'm suggesting you use chutney to generate a working network on a single 
> machine, and then move tor instances on that network to other machines one at 
> a time. If you start with a working network, then it's obvious when you do 
> something that breaks the network.
> 
> If you can't get a working network using chutney on localhost, then that's 
> useful information, too. (Perhaps your tor install is broken.)
> 
> That said, you could use chutney to just generate the config files, but it's 
> harder to work out what went wrong if things fail.
> 
> > We've been running into these issues with completely clean installs of 
> > CentOS, no new/extraneous services running with single instances of the tor 
> > service going at any one time.
> 
> I can't really provide any specific help, because I don't have enough detail.
> 
> However, here's one guess at some information that might be useful:
> Tor authorities will run on their own, and they also act as relays.
> Tor relays (including exits and bridges) need authorities.
> Tor clients (including onion (hidden) services) need authorities and relays 
> and likely exits.
> 
> Start by getting one authority running on one machine.
> It will serve a consensus consisting of itself.
> Then, get another authority running on another machine.
> Make sure they talk to one another and agree that they're both valid.
> Then, get a few relays running.
> Make sure they all appear in the consensus.
> Then get a few exits running.
> Then try clients.
> Then test that clients can use the exits to talk to a test web server or 
> something.
> (Chutney automates this entire process.)
> 
> If you want help with any failures, copy and paste the torrc, and the error 
> messages you're getting, and tell us what you've tried already.
> (You can anonymise IP addresses if you need to, as long as it's clear which 
> ones are the same.)
> 
> Tim
> 
> Tim Wilson-Brown (teor)
> 
> teor2345 at gmail dot com
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