[guardian-dev] Fwd: Re: Tor on Android over Open Garden

Mon Jun 17 22:01:42 EDT 2013

More information Orbot with Open Garden

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Tor on Android over Open Garden
Date: 	Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:34:59 -0700
From: 	Paige Peterson <paige at opengarden.com>
To: 	Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info>

Nathan,
I suspected the problem with Orbot not working with Open Garden was
related to the Android OS bug with their Connectivity Manager.
 See: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=33666

Our lead developer checked out the source code and found it is that bug.

Greg said:
Indeed, the log line "No network connectivity. Putting Tor to sleep…"
happens when ConnectivityManager tells them the network is not connected
(even though it would work).

They set the "DisableNetwork" parameter to true. I'm not sure why they
would use an explicit flag like this. The bug was introduced
here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-commits/2012-October/046835.html

You can reach Greg at greg at opengarden.com <mailto:greg at opengarden.com>
for any clarification. 

Such a bug would also prevent OrbotVPN from working when you guys
develop that.  By the way, let us know when your finishing its
development... since it won't work with Open Garden unless we work
together to detect each other. :)

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Nathan of Guardian
<nathan at guardianproject.info <mailto:nathan at guardianproject.info>> wrote:

    Anyone want to hack on this a bit and see what you can find out?

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    *From:* Paige Peterson <paige at opengarden.com
    <mailto:paige at opengarden.com>>
    *Sent:* Sun Jun 16 02:49:05 EDT 2013
    *To:* help at guardianproject.info <mailto:help at guardianproject.info>
    *Subject:* Tor on Android over Open Garden

    Hi there,
    I'm the Community Manager for Open Garden and thought it would be neat
    to test Tor over the Open Garden network.  If you don't know about OG,
    we have a mesh networking application available on Android, Windows

    and OS X.  More info here: https://opengarden.com
    I was successfully able to get Tor to point to Open Garden on my
    MacBook Air (using Vidalia) running 10.7.5 by changing proxy settings

    to 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1> port 1080 on SOCKS 5.
    Trying the same thing with Orbot on a Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Android
    4.0.4 is not able to connect to the Tor network over Open Garden.  It

    will connect if I have a WiFi connection, but not if I'm using Open
    Garden's software for my only source of Internet access.

    I'm looking to write a blog post about using Tor over Open Garden but
    would like to attempt to make it work on Android too bef
     ore
    posting
    that it only works on the desktop clients.

    Here is my Orbot log, let me know if I can do anything else to resolve this.

    Orbot is starting…
    Orbot is starting…
    got tor proc id: 4230
    Tor process id=4230

    Connecting to control port: 9051
    SUCCESS connected to control port
    SUCCESS authenticated to control port
    Starting Tor client… complete.
    adding control port event handler
    SUCCESS added control port event handler

    Starting privoxy process
    /data/data/org.torproject.android/app_bin/privoxy
    /data/data/org.torproject.android/app_bin/privoxy.config &
    Circuit (1) LAUNCHED:
    NOTICE: Bootstrapped 5%: Connecting to directory server.

    orConnStatus ($0AD3FA884D18F89EEA2D89C019379E0E7FD94417): LAUNCHED
    NOTICE: Heartbeat: Tor's uptime is 0:00 hours, with 1 circuits open.
    I've sent 0 kB and received 0 kB.
    NOTICE: Bootstrapped 10%: Finishing handshake with dire
     ctory
    server.
    Privoxy is running on port:8118
    Privoxy process id=4238
    NOTICE: Closing no-longer-configured Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
    NOTICE: Closing no-longer-configured DNS listener on 127.0.0.1:5400

    NOTICE: Closing no-longer-configured Transparent pf/netfilter listener
    on 127.0.0.1:9040
    NOTICE: DisableNetwork is set. Tor will not make or accept non-control
    network connections. Shutting down all existing connections.

    NOTICE: Closing old Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
    WARN: Bug: Duplicate call to connection_mark_for_close at
    config.c:1260 (first at connection.c:2027)
    NOTICE: Closing old DNS listener on 127.0.0.1:5400

    WARN: Bug: Duplicate call to connection_mark_for_close at
    config.c:1260 (first at connection.c:2027)
    NOTICE: Closing old Transparent pf/netfil
     ter
    listener on 127.0.0.1:9040
    WARN: Bug: Duplicate call to connection_mark_for_close at
    config.c:1260 (first at connection.c:2027)
    No network connectivity. Putting Tor to sleep...
    Circuit (2) LAUNCHED:

    orConnStatus ($F397038ADC51336135E7B80BD99CA3844360292B): LAUNCHED
    WARN: connection_connect(): Bug: Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set.
    orConnStatus ($F397038ADC51336135E7B80BD99CA3844360292B): FAILED

    WARN: Problem bootstrapping. Stuck at 10%: Finishing handshake with
    directory server. (Network is unreachable; NOROUTE; count 1;
    recommendation warn)
    Circuit (2) FAILED: ONEHOP_TUNNEL > IS_INTERNAL > NEED_CAPACITY

    Circuit (1) FAILED: ONEHOP_TUNNEL > IS_INTERNAL > NEED_CAPACITY

    --
    Paige Peterson
    Open Garden Community Manager
    forum.opengarden.com <http://forum.opengarden.com>

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