Orchid 1.2.2-0.3

PlugIns to the I2P router suite
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echelon
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Orchid 1.2.2-0.3

Post by echelon »

This is a major update over 1.2.2-0.2, which was released in August 2016. Tor protocol changes caused the plugin to stop working at all. See ticket #2087 http://trac.i2p2.i2p/ticket/2079 for details.

Sorry for the delay. I did what I could in November 2017, I had partial changes, but it still didn't work. As it turns out, there was no fix posted on github until about two months ago. Thanks to mhatta for his help figuring this out.

- Reduce max consensus age again (ticket #1220)
- Don't load a cached-microdesc from disk that is too old (ticket #1937)
- Update dirauths (ticket #2079)
- Fix spurious errors at shutdown (ticket #2079)
- Fix for new certificate types in tor-spec 4.2 (ticket #2079)

Note that there are still startup problems if you haven't run the plugin in a long time - tickets #1220 #1937. For me, the first time I ran the new version, it never finished sTARTING phase after I waited 10 minutes (monitor on the /orchid/ page in the console). I stopped and restarted the plugin (on /configplugins) and it immediately completed startup (/orchid/ page shows RUNNING).

But hey, it's better than it was. Please report results here or on trac.

You may download the plugin for the first time at http://stats.i2p/i2p/plugins/ or if you already have it installed, just click the update button on /configplugins in your console.
Qubes
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Re: Orchid 1.2.2-0.3

Post by Qubes »

It works almost flawlessly for me! No waiting, no major problems. Starts immediately! I write this posting through Orchid and proxy.

There are some snags not worth mentioning here and there such as v3 tor addresses not working (tested on Qubes Tor Onion Service (v3): sik5nlgfc5qylnnsr57qrbm64zbdx6t4lreyhpon3ychmxmiem7tioad.onion )

It just blows my mind that people have trouble with it. I ran i2p in firejail (firejail ./i2prouter start), FF nightly, JDK 1.8.

Great Tor circuits separation... absolutely great.

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Cy-27
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Re: Orchid 1.2.2-0.3

Post by Cy-27 »

Restart does not help. Status is: STARTING anyways :?
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