Hello, I bought a raspberry pi 4 8gb with the intention to provide a bridge to the community, that can run 24/7 in my home network and with little power.
tor --version
Tor version 0.3.5.15 (This is supposed to be higher ?!)
When trying to run sudo systemctl enable --now tor@default
Ill get:
The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=,
Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for template
units). This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
• A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit’s
.wants/ or .requires/ directory.
• A unit’s purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
a requirement dependency on it.
• A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, …).
• In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
instance name specified.
ls /lib/systemd/system | grep tor
alsa-restore.service
tor@default.service
tor.service
tor@.service
I tried the same on my ubuntu desktop VERSION=“18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)” to compare things. I get the same error and the tor version is even older. I didnt forget to run apt update both times.
tor@default.service has tor.service as it’s multi-instance-master, tor.service takes care of all the tor instances. You want sudo systemctl enable --now tor
Hello guys, do you know if there is some way to run bridges on old phones. I have some and tried using them as http servers with root and they all worked, but I can not get information about running bridges on them. Thanks
I don’t mean to pick nits, but Raspbian/RaspiOS is not Debian-- just the same that Ubuntu is not Debian. The builds/repos are different and Raspbian has even gotten architecture naming screwed up (see: armhf on Raspbian is not the same thing as armhf on Debian) … this has led to people trying to use Debian packages from Raspbian and finding out they don’t work.
I’m not sure about Raspi’s packaging of tor, but I know that Ubuntu’s repo has not been good about keeping up. In the case of Ubuntu it’s certainly better to use Tor Project’s repo until Ubuntu establishes a better track record of updating tor.
If the only intent for the rpi4 target is to run a bridge, Debian with Tor Project’s repo seems like the best bet. Unless there’s something drastically wrong with Debian on Raspberry Pis that I’m not aware of.
Thank you, but it was much more dumb, I was supposed to replace <DISTRIBUTION> to bullseye, not <bullseye> …
Alright, now I got version 0.4.6.8.
But even before adding the repository manually, I could have installed
tor | 0.4.5.10-1~deb11u1
unlike before when I used the raspios buster armhf release.
Just a little bit nit picky, but I feelz ya!
I didn’t really want to get into the distro thing just trying to help out someone do what I just did, but I was running 10 and not 11 as I already had the unit doing other stuff on my LAN.
Nice one, I’ve been looking around the site and based on some of the posts I’ve seen I think I may consider getting BSD running on another Pi4 and patch that to my 2nd WAN link for another bridge. A project for the Christmas break, possibly.
I there any common thing I need to set in my router when setting up a relay ?
Ipv6 is deactivated by default in my router, but I dont know what else to consider doing that so I wanted to ignore it first. I dont like activating things I dont actually comprehend.
If your relay is running on a internal net, you need to setup port forwarding. Check this https://portforward.com/ for directions on how to port forward with your NAT/router device.
If your relay is running on a internal net, you need to setup port forwarding. Check this https://portforward.com/ for directions on how to port forward with your NAT/router device.
Thanks I found that in my router but wasnt sure If I actually need to do something there.
Doesnt every common home network user have only a dynamic public ip address ?
I checked my isp, its a thing only available for office contracts.
I havent seen it changes for a couple days now, I dont know the lifecycle but its not like every hour.
Why cant tor check if there is a new public ip and if yes restart all steps and re-release the server automatically on the same identity ?
When bridges are blacklisted for whatever reason, dont they need to restart with a new address anyways ?
