Unable to create a tor middle relay

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Hi,

I used to run a tor middle relay for some time.
After a break, I would like to run it again but it seems I have a problem.

I have the following message : “Your server has not managed to confirm reachability for its ORPort(s) at 5.135.176.38:9001. Relays do not publish descriptors until their ORPort and DirPort are reachable. Please check your firewalls, ports, address, /etc/hosts file, etc.”

The message seems to indicate that port 9001 is inaccessible, but I can telnet it without issue. I try different things without success.

How can I debug this ?

Note : I use tor with my own docker image available here : GitHub - Inglebard/dockerfiles at tor-relay

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Hey! It seems that you managed to fix your relay InglebardRelay. What was the issue?

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Hi,

I don"t really “fix” it.
InglebardRelay(old) still keep offline and still display the message error in the log

However, If I recreate the container and i switch docker network to “host” mode, it seems to work: InglebardRelay(current)

This is really strange because in both case the docker container is accessible through port 9001.

So because one work and the other not, I suppose my ufw setup is correct and something is wrong with tor (inside docker) or docker network.

I will try to recreate a test relay with “NET_ADMIN” capability to see if it’s better.

Edit: Seems to work with a simple docker command but not in docker swarm.

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I also met the same problem,. How did you solve it? Thanks!

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have you allowed these ports, on your local firewall and setup router ip forwards? remember also to syncronize the time on both units