[LUGSB] Tor at sunysb.edu

[Benjamin Bannier]

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:39:40 -0400
Benjamin Bannier <bbannier at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I recently moved to Stony Brook from Europe. I was using Tor for web
> from time to time. However, I could not get a working circuit up here
> (Tor: "[notice] I learned some more directory information, but not
> enough to build a circuit.")
> 
> Any ideas why? Hard to imagine that the university's routing policy
> would interfere. And of course there are nodes not to far (not that it
> matters how far away they are).
> 
> 

Finally here's a solution: Somehow, when downloading information from
directory servers (information about available servers), the packages
get messed up by someone along the way.
  [info] update_networkstatus_client_downloads(): For 5/5 running directory servers, we have 4 live network-status documents. Downloading 1.
  [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): HTTP body from server '87.106.188.238:80' was labeled as deflated, but it seems to be uncompressed.  Trying both.
  [info] tor_gzip_uncompress(): possible truncated or corrupt zlib data
  [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): Received networkstatus objects (size 0) from server '87.106.188.238:80'

zlib seem to be ok here, so I tried 
  TunnelDirConns 1
  PreferTunneledDirConns 1
in torrc, i.e. use an encrypted tunnel when downloading directory
information. That's it. Tor figures out on its own that :6667 is dead.

Now googleing feels much better, and IRC is working.


b.