Troubleshooting

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Excellent Firefox Privacy Add-ons
Distro Specific Fix:
Frequently Asked Questions:

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Excellent Firefox Privacy Add-ons

Firefox Release 45.0 March 8, 2016:

Introduce a new preference (network.dns.blockDotOnion) to allow blocking .onion at the DNS level.

The new "feature" is enabled by default to block .onion addresses.

Browser Error:

"Server not found" "Firefox can’t find the server at abcxyz.onion" and "problems loading page"

The Browser Fix:

about:config

Search: blockDotOnion

Change from: true

network.dns.blockDotOnion user set boolean true

Change to: false

network.dns.blockDotOnion user set boolean false

Enable IPv6 Privacy Extension in Linux

Error: Getting public IP

Still waiting for IP address... is stuck in a loop and gets an IP after 12 retries -- 1 minute.

[!] Can't get public ip address!... I never get an IP address.

The Fix:

Download the latest version of toriptables2.
Purge and re-install tor. toriptables2 needs the stock /etc/tor/torrc to work properly.

Distro Specific Fix:

Distro	Tor User ID	DNSPort
Arch	tor	5300
Fedora	toranon

sed -i 's/debian-tor/tor/' toriptables2.py

sudo systemctl enable tor

Notification Error:

sudo apt install mate-notification-daemon

Frequently Asked Questions:

Q. Is there an easier way to install toriptables2 without all the command-line hacking?

A. Not at this time. Hopefully in the future the Kali Gods will add toriptables2 to Kali Linux repo.

Q. I was looking for something that's easy to install that will give anonymity and work on Windows.

A. Installing the Tor Browser probably would be the path of least resistance.

Q. I see it's written in Python. Will it work on Windows?

A. Not at this time. Iptables is not native to Windows. At the rate Microsoft is making Windows more Linux like, maybe in the near future...

Q. Why do I get an IPv6 Address and whatismyipaddress shows my real location?

A. Disable IPv6 at the OS level.

sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1
sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

Q. Is Tor Really Anonymous?

A. Well, I'll leave you with this.