This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields?
Thank you!
William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
Hi William,
You enter the port in “External” that you want outside clients to connect to you on.
So if you are advertising services on port 9001 in your torrc then that is the port you need to forward.
Others can weigh in on whether this will work properly for a relay or exit - I suspect you might hit connection limits with a consumer modem
Spiros
On 9 Mar 2020, at 07:40, William Pate willpate@pm.me wrote:
This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields?
Thank you!
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William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
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Local port is the port of the machine running your relay (be sure to put the correct local IP address, preferably set a static IP or DHCP reservation so that your relay’s PC gets always the same private IP on your LAN).
External port is the port of your router that you want to forward to the relay’s machine. Tor defaults behavior is to advertise that it accepts connection on the ORPort, so 9001 in your case.
It works like this:
External connection on port 9001 ==> your router ==> internal connection forwarded to port 9001 ==> Relay’s PC
tl;dr
Set external and internal port both on 9001 to translate any connection to port 9001 of your public IP address to port 9001 of your relay’s PC.
-m
Il giorno 9 mar 2020, alle ore 08:40, William Pate willpate@pm.me ha scritto:
This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields?
Thank you!
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William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
Perfect. So I was doing it correctly. Something else is blocking the OR Port. I'll do some more digging. Thank you!
William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, March 9, 2020 3:13 AM, Mario Costa mario.costa@icloud.com wrote:
Local port is the port of the machine running your relay (be sure to put the correct local IP address, preferably set a static IP or DHCP reservation so that your relay’s PC gets always the same private IP on your LAN).
External port is the port of your router that you want to forward to the relay’s machine. Tor defaults behavior is to advertise that it accepts connection on the ORPort, so 9001 in your case.
It works like this:
External connection on port 9001 ==> your router ==> internal connection forwarded to port 9001 ==> Relay’s PC
tl;dr
Set external and internal port both on 9001 to translate any connection to port 9001 of your public IP address to port 9001 of your relay’s PC.
-m
Il giorno 9 mar 2020, alle ore 08:40, William Pate willpate@pm.me ha scritto: This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields? Thank you! <Pasted-image-Fri Mar 06 2020 102457 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time).png> William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
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Fingerprint 7AC93EC4B3725ABF7E09A903BC4A5C5C1E36517F Type Relay Nickname 787atxdotme Platform Tor 0.4.2.5 on Windows 8 [or later] Contact Info william at inadequate dot net OR Addresses 66.90.147.150:9001
William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, March 9, 2020 9:39 AM, William Pate willpate@pm.me wrote:
Perfect. So I was doing it correctly. Something else is blocking the OR Port. I'll do some more digging. Thank you!
William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, March 9, 2020 3:13 AM, Mario Costa mario.costa@icloud.com wrote:
Local port is the port of the machine running your relay (be sure to put the correct local IP address, preferably set a static IP or DHCP reservation so that your relay’s PC gets always the same private IP on your LAN). External port is the port of your router that you want to forward to the relay’s machine. Tor defaults behavior is to advertise that it accepts connection on the ORPort, so 9001 in your case. It works like this: External connection on port 9001 ==> your router ==> internal connection forwarded to port 9001 ==> Relay’s PC tl;dr Set external and internal port both on 9001 to translate any connection to port 9001 of your public IP address to port 9001 of your relay’s PC. -m
Il giorno 9 mar 2020, alle ore 08:40, William Pate willpate@pm.me ha scritto: This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields? Thank you! <Pasted-image-Fri Mar 06 2020 102457 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time).png> William Pate willpate@pm.me 512-947-3311 inadequate.net tor-relays mailing list tor-relays@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
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On 3/6/20, William Pate willpate@pm.me wrote:
This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into the external port fields? https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/attachments/20200306/19f4c...
Tor advertises its ORPort to tor network via descriptor mechanism, the port is in the log output. For default tor config and simple forwarding firewall, enter the same port, typically 9001.
Sorry you had to potentially sit idle on your project for almost three days waiting for it to even post to begin get any reply from others. The Tor Project censors running these lists... in part to placate snowbunnies and warriors, to manage image, to demur from some differing pov's and even some facts, to avoid journalist and open critique, etc... seem maybe have some issue with say letting people freely read and information freely timely flow.
For example...
Were your post to have been noting an attack or security exploit involving tor relays, a whole lot of tor users around the world could have got hurt in the intervening time below. That's really bad. And is the result of such needless "moderation" program Tor Project over everyone, instead of say only over the very rare incorrigible verbally abusive asshole repeatedly going directly into other people. Whereas a few spams now and then, other normal and typical fare, some fire, noise, convo, good args, parts above, etc all lists have from time to time, no big deal, silly to censor them. Tor has big budget to fund that program to click post approve 24x7, they did not even implement that. So relays might need consider non-tpo-list comms to be timely safe.
" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:39:43 +0000 ... Received: from protonmail by torproject for tor-relays Fri 6 Mar 2020 16:25:18 +0000 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:25:08 +0000 Subject: [tor-relays] Port Forwarding Question From: William Pate willpate@pm.me "
Have fun with your tor project :)
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