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[Benjamin Kudria]

On Thursday, March 06 2008, Benjamin Bannier wrote:
> Finally here's a solution: Somehow, when downloading information from
> directory servers (information about available servers), the packages
> get messed up by someone along the way.
>   [info] update_networkstatus_client_downloads(): For 5/5 running directory
> servers, we have 4 live network-status documents. Downloading 1. [info]
> connection_dir_client_reached_eof(): HTTP body from server
> '87.106.188.238:80' was labeled as deflated, but it seems to be
> uncompressed.  Trying both. [info] tor_gzip_uncompress(): possible
> truncated or corrupt zlib data [info] connection_dir_client_reached_eof():
> Received networkstatus objects (size 0) from server '87.106.188.238:80'
>
> zlib seem to be ok here, so I tried
>   TunnelDirConns 1
>   PreferTunneledDirConns 1
> in torrc, i.e. use an encrypted tunnel when downloading directory
> information. That's it. Tor figures out on its own that :6667 is dead.
>
> Now googleing feels much better, and IRC is working.

Awesome, thanks for taking the time to investigate this.  I was planning on 
playing around with Tor, now I don't have an excuse!

-Ben Kudria

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