Tor-project & git ....

Mario Lobo lobo at bsd.com.br
Wed Sep 24 13:02:58 UTC 2014


2014-09-23 21:06 GMT-03:00 William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>:

> On 09/23/14 17:48, Mario Lobo wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 23:03:05 +0200
>> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:46:45 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>
>>>> .... I am interested in the tor project
>>>> (https://www.torproject.org/) for anonymizing my browsing.
>>>> Inconveniently (but not surprisingly), they don't have a prebuilt
>>>> FBSD 9.3 package.
>>>>
>>> FreeBSD has a port of Tor in its collection, but I don't know
>>> how far that can be used as an integration to web browsers...
>>>
>>>  Yes, it has ! And it works beautifully. I have a working setup of
>> tor+privoxy that delivers exactly what is expected.
>>
>> tor         TCP 127.0.0.1:9050 (LISTEN)
>> privoxy     TCP 10.10.10.1:8118 (LISTEN)
>>
>>
>> # snip of /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config
>> #
>> #      To chain Privoxy and Tor, both running on the same system, you
>> #      would use something like:
>> #
>> forward-socks5   /               127.0.0.1:9050 .
>>
>>
>>
>> I just point my browser to privoxy and it communicates with tor.
>>
>
>
> I got tor, privoxy, torsocks (just in case) pkg-installed, but I am
> puzzled by the 2 lines above showing LISTEN .... that is output from ....
> what (presumably w/ the 2 daemons started) ? Remember, *noob*, *noob*,
> *noob* when it comes to system software :-/ ....
>
>
>
> --
>
>         William A. Mahaffey III
>
>
Ahh ... Ok. Sorry about that. Both lines were selected from an lsof output
for

lsof -n | grep tor  and  lsof -n | grep privoxy, with both daemons running,
yes !

I didn't have any need for torsocks.

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