Learning-Bitcoin-from-the-Command-Line/12_1_Verifying_Your_Tor_Setup.md

Chapter 12: Verifying Your Tor Setup

In this chapter we will verify tor installation and setup.

~$ sudo -u debian-tor tor --verify-config

If tor is installed correctly you should see an output like this:

Jun 26 21:52:09.230 [notice] Tor 0.4.3.5 running on Linux with Libevent 2.0.21-stable, OpenSSL 1.0.2n, Zlib 1.2.11, Liblzma 5.2.2, and Libzstd N/A.
Jun 26 21:52:09.230 [notice] Tor can't help you if you use it wrong! Learn how to be safe at https://www.torproject.org/download/download#warning
Jun 26 21:52:09.230 [notice] Read configuration file "/etc/tor/torrc".
Configuration was valid

~$ 

Verify bitcoind Tor setup

You should see something like this in your debug log file to verify your ID onion address.

$ grep -e "tor: " debug.log

Output

2020-06-25T18:16:44Z tor: Thread interrupt
2020-06-25T19:11:12Z tor: Got service ID [YOUR_ONION_ID], advertising service your_onion_id.onion:8333

Using bitcoin-cli you should use:

$ bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo

Output

{
  "version": 200000,
  "subversion": "/Satoshi:0.20.0/",
  "protocolversion": 70015,
  "localservices": "0000000000000409",
  "localservicesnames": [
    "NETWORK",
    "WITNESS",
    "NETWORK_LIMITED"
  ],
  "localrelay": true,
  "timeoffset": 0,
  "networkactive": true,
  "connections": 5,
  "networks": [
    {
      "name": "ipv4",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "ipv6",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": false
    },
    {
      "name": "onion",
      "limited": false,
      "reachable": true,
      "proxy": "127.0.0.1:9050",
      "proxy_randomize_credentials": true
    }
  ],
  "relayfee": 0.00001000,
  "incrementalfee": 0.00001000,
  "localaddresses": [
    {
      "address": "your_onion_id.onion",
      "port": 8333,
      "score": 4
    }
  ],
  "warnings": ""
}