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htrgouvea / nipe

An engine to make Tor network your default gateway
https://heitorgouvea.me/
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get rid of writing to /root #161

Closed vstavrinov closed 4 months ago

vstavrinov commented 5 months ago

You are write a lot of data into /root directory. This is very bad style. Please write your data somewhere else by default and make this path configurable.

htrgouvea commented 5 months ago

Hi @vstavrinov, are you using the latest version of Nipe?

The config file of nipe are in ./config, maybe the events in /root are from Tor. Can you provide more informations to me?

Thanks.

vstavrinov commented 5 months ago

./config nothing to do with issue - it is run time configuration. The problem rises at installation stage what You require to run as root so it writes all its data into /root directory.

vstavrinov commented 5 months ago

Sorry, I could not reproduce this problem. At the first time there was lot of megabytes in the /root that I have removed as it eat all free space, but now there is only build.log after repeating installation. But in both cases the result is the same:

[!] ERROR: sorry, it was not possible to establish a connection to the server.

So it is good idea of this project, but I don't see the way to get it working.

vstavrinov commented 5 months ago

I have found the cause: https://check.torproject.org/api/ip is blocked. It available via vpn only. So it is the vicious circle problem: this project designed for bypassing blocking, but it itself uses blocked site. More over the problem is deeper. The error above issued by status command. But I have tried start command with no errors reported. But nothing is working too: neither dns resolution nor bare ip is not accessible. Also I repeated this test with clean iptables and got the same result. What else to do to get it working?

vstavrinov commented 4 months ago

The problem is that tor is blocked. To get around this block we need bridge:

https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges/?transport=0