Re: Configuring Tor and Privoxy in Squeeze (Addendum)
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 21:06:26 +0100, AG wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 19:08:31 +0100, AG wrote:
>>> AG wrote:
>>>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:59:29 +0100, AG wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel,
>>>>>> but it keeps throwing up errors.
[...]
>>> sudo netstat -plant | grep -E ':(8118|9050)'
>>> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9050 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 19186/tor
>>> tcp6 0 0 ::1:8118 :::* LISTEN 26738/privoxy
>>>
>>
>> The line for Tor is as expected, but I am surprised that you have
>> privoxy listening only for tcp6 connections. I do not recall ever seeing
>> privoxy listed in any way other than this:
>>
>> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8118 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 7152/privoxy
>>
>> Have you done any IPv6-related customization on your system?
>>
> No, this is a new install as of Sunday and I don't know enough to have
> made those adjustments deliberately. If these happened in the course of
> something else, I couldn't say and don't know how to check.
>
> Is this a risk or something?
Not necessarily a risk, but there have been complaints about the ipv6
patch of privoxy :
http://bugs.debian.org/525274
(wauhugo pointed out this bug report to me in an off-list message)
[...]
> Commented out the "forward-socks ..." line and restarted privoxy.
> Changed the manual proxy settings in IW as described and reached
> http://config.privoxy.org which reads "This is Privoxy 3.0.12 on
> localhost (::1), port 8118, enabled"
Ok that is what I would have expected. (Again you see an ipv6 address
were I see an ipv4 one, but I am not sure if this is related to your
problem.)
> Next, cleared all fields in IW settings and entered localhost port 9550
> in the socks line. Went to the URL shown, and that server thinks my
> machine is in Nebraska, not the UK (must be the exit node you mentioned).
Yes, at that moment your tor must have been using an exit node in
Nebraska. (The exit node should change regularly to make it harder to
track you.)
> So ... what does all this mean then? The individual components appear
> to work? But not together?
Maybe there is something wrong with the torbutton plugin.
> It may/ not be anything, but under the IW
> settings, no matter what I enter in the privoxy/config file, in the
> settings the Socksv5 radio button is always marked.
I also have the SOCKS5 button marked all the time; it does not seem to
cause any harm.
The next thing I would try is to make privoxy and tor work together
without using the torbutton plugin of iceweasel: Activate the
"forward-socks ..." line again and restart privoxy. Make sure that the
manual proxy configuration for http and https is the same as for the
previous privoxy test (localhost port 8118) *and* that the SOCKS proxy
setting is localhost port 9050. Then try to access the showip.net
website again. What happens now?
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