Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 20…

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Author: intrigeri
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To: Mike Perry
CC: tails-dev, mcs, brade
Old-Topics: Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Tor Launcher extension [Was: Mike's March 2013]
Hi,

Mike Perry wrote (02 Apr 2013 08:52:56 GMT) :
> #8511 might cause you problems if you use a $TOR_SOCKS_PORT env var with
> a value other than 9151, though. You may want to either add iptables
> redirect rule for 9151 or add an additional SocksPort line to your torrc
> rather than messing with TBB's socks port env vars for that reason.
> Changing the socks port at runtime will cause the issues mentioned in
> that bug.


I've not seen this problem yet, but I assume it could happen in the
wild, in some cases, due to some race condition.

So, I've simply changed our configuration (in our FF24 + Torbutton
1.6.x branch) to use the same Tor SOCKS port as the TBB (9151) for the
Tails web browser. This should be enough to avoid being affected by
this problem, right?

Cheens,
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