On Tuesday 17 December 2013 11:50 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:25:15AM +0530, abhiram wrote: >> I am running a tor relay on a home connection. My connection is >> assigned a new ip as the lease expires every few days. So far I am >> fixing this my editing my torrc file with the new address value. Are >> there better ways of handing this? >> >> One thing that puzzled me was that when I first setup my relay it >> was unable to find the external address of my connection and its >> log files kept complaining that: >> >> "If x.x.x.x:9030 is not your correct IP address and directory port, >> please check your relay's configuration" > > What program gave that log message? That isn't a log message in Tor. > Maybe Vidalia? Unless you're paraphrasing? > >> Obviously it wasn't my ip address, when I looked it up it was from >> another country. So my question is why is my relay advertising this >> specific address? > > What operating system, what Tor version, and how did you install it? > > I wonder if your /etc/hosts file has a stale address in it, so Tor doesn't > try to guess because your computer has already set its IP address (even > though it's wrong)? > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays >
Thanks for your response. I tried two versions of tor, one that came with TBB (.2.3.25) and the other I built using the source package(.2.4.19). Oh and I am running Arch. I did take a look at hosts file but there weren't any stale entries. I am hoping that by running tor on my other machine I can rule out problems with old config files. -- Abhiram Chintangal _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
