Topic: Tor fallback nodes - page 2. (Read 3792 times)
I suppose to start using bitcoin client over tor I need to set it up with -addnode values of tor nodes?
When you get only 8 connections it mean you are only connecting to the 8 nodes of the IRC list thing, the default ones. Only 8 connections it means your client is unable to find and comunicate with other nodes
I realize this is way late, but I finally got some tor hidden services up for bitcoin and namecoin
p2hwc26zdsrqxiix.onion
EDIT: Hmm. It seems that bitcoin is limiting itself to 8 connections. My server running the hidden service is in my network's DMZ and I have "maxconnections=125" in my config. Does having a proxy set force it to 8? I'm still downloading the block chain.
Should I disable the proxy? That would reveal that I'm running a node which I thought kind of removed the point of being a tor hidden service though.
EDIT AGAIN: I turned the proxy off and still am only getting 8 connections
p2hwc26zdsrqxiix.onion
EDIT: Hmm. It seems that bitcoin is limiting itself to 8 connections. My server running the hidden service is in my network's DMZ and I have "maxconnections=125" in my config. Does having a proxy set force it to 8? I'm still downloading the block chain.
Should I disable the proxy? That would reveal that I'm running a node which I thought kind of removed the point of being a tor hidden service though.
Code:
$ bitcoind getinfo
{
"version" : 50100,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 143079,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "127.0.0.1:9050",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"difficulty" : 1805700.83619367,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1324762350,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}
{
"version" : 50100,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 143079,
"connections" : 8,
"proxy" : "127.0.0.1:9050",
"generate" : false,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"difficulty" : 1805700.83619367,
"hashespersec" : 0,
"testnet" : false,
"keypoololdest" : 1324762350,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"errors" : ""
}
EDIT AGAIN: I turned the proxy off and still am only getting 8 connections
I'll setup a hidden service on my main miner and get the ports open for you later today. I think bitcoin over tor is probably privacy overkill, but it can't hurt.
Hm... Just tried to "apt-get install tor" on my miner and it was unhappy with libevent versions. This may take a little longer than I thought.
Hm... Just tried to "apt-get install tor" on my miner and it was unhappy with libevent versions. This may take a little longer than I thought.
I don't think it is overkill. The IRC peer relay without tor seems rather terrible for privacy and any well used node could be harvesting client IPs for some malevolent purpose. Granted they probably can't do that much with just my IP, but I am not really qualified to evaluate the security of my home computer. All I know is consumer routers or AVG was probably not designed to protect money...
It used to find peers by itself with the tor proxy on before but lately I have been having 0 connections and pretty much need to shut of the proxy to update the chain...
It may or may not be possible to connect to my client on e3tn727fywnioxrc.onion:8333
I have no idea if that is going to work though. I am pretty sure the hidden service is setup correctly but I don't know if the bitcoin client might need some configuring to communicate properly with the hidden service?
I'll setup a hidden service on my main miner and get the ports open for you later today. I think bitcoin over tor is probably privacy overkill, but it can't hurt.
Hm... Just tried to "apt-get install tor" on my miner and it was unhappy with libevent versions. This may take a little longer than I thought.
Hm... Just tried to "apt-get install tor" on my miner and it was unhappy with libevent versions. This may take a little longer than I thought.
Is there some more updated list of nodes on tor?
Those were added a long time ago, so they might all be down now.
I can't get any of the Tor fallback nodes listed at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fallback_Nodes to work.
From my tor network it doesn't even seem to be attempting connections to the .onion addresses. I set it up exactly as described there with the torrc and bitcoin configuration files.
So is this supposed to work?
From my tor network it doesn't even seem to be attempting connections to the .onion addresses. I set it up exactly as described there with the torrc and bitcoin configuration files.
So is this supposed to work?
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