On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 19:46:54 +0100, AG wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 18:31:43 +0100, AG wrote:
AG wrote:
I am attempting to get Tor and Privoxy working with Iceweasel,
but it keeps throwing up errors.
[...]
The following is my /etc/privoxy/config file (without the
commented sections):
[...]
listen-address localhost:8118
[...]
It seems that "localhost" resolves to the ipv6 address on your system,
at least as far as the privoxy configuration is concerned, while for me
it still yields the ipv4 address. The following might therefore be a
workaround for the 3.0.12-2 version of privoxy on your installation:
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118
It would probably be better to find out why "localhost" is interpreted
differently on your box. To this end, I would like to see the output of
getent hosts localhost
and the contents of your /etc/hosts file.
Florian
Your assumption looks spot on about defaulting to ipv6, as can be seen
below:
Working from the bottom back up:
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.40 owndomain.org owndomain
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
This is were my /etc/hosts file differs:
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
[...]
$ getent hosts localhost
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
As expected from my /etc/hosts, I get this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
I would remove the "localhost" from the line starting with "::1". I
think that making sure that "localhost" resolves to 127.0.0.1 is still
the configuration with the least likelihood to cause trouble.
This is a new machine with a SATA drive, although I did install the same
ethernet card that I had in my previous box (which worked fine with Tor
and Privoxy), so I don't know if I inadvertently configured it that way
when I did the fresh install on Saturday last.
Which version of the installer did you use? Maybe the default
configuration of /etc/hosts has changed recently (which might be a bug).
And as you suspected, Iceweasel does indeed listen in on 8118, as seen by:
$ netstat -plant
[...]
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8118 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
Note: This has to be privoxy, not iceweasel - you will see the process
name if you run netstat with the same options as root.
At this point I am okay with having the Lenny ipv6-non-patched tor and
privoxy arrangement. However, if you are recommending that I do attempt
the workaround then I will do so.
I am pretty sure that you will not even haven to use the workaround if
you make the suggested change to /etc/hosts.