Note that RetroShare is officially at version 0.5.5, so 0.6.0 is still a dev build.
Last year, before whonix gateway and whonix workstaion changed its IP address (to the 10.152.152.10 format) I was able to get this setup and working to reach other Tor Hidden Service peers on RetroShare 0.6. Now I no longer seem to be able to reach anyone (possibly not even get out of the Workstation network).
Based on the torrc.examples I tried:
HiddenServiceDir /var/lib/tor/hidden/
HiddenServicePort 3399 10.152.152.11:3399
I reloaded the tor service and got the hostname and put it in RetroShare, as RetroShare instructs. I realize this might be a bug in the expected design in RetroShare’s code or design, but I am not sure how it all works and wonder if there is any way that Whonix might recommend getting RetroShare 0.6.0 working with the Whonix Gateway hosting the RetroShare Tor hidden service I would be happy.
I cannot seem to reach out to other Tor hidden Service Peers, nor can I be reached by my friends who are running Tor (client to hidden-server mode in RetroShare).
Which IP addresses should I try, and where should I try them at (torrc file, retroshare software, etc)? RetroShare 0.6.0 seems to lock the outgoing traffic to 127.0.0.1, so I am not sure if that will be reaching Whonix Gateway or not.
Thanks. My problem was that I was using the 10.152.152.11 from the example, but I had a custom IP set in /etc/networking/interfaced for the workstation.
RetroShare still seems to to not work perfectly with Whonix, as the incoming listening port is hardcoded to 127.0.0.1 on the workstation. Maybe that is getting forwarded to also listen with the same port on the Gateway? It doesn’t seem so though, as other peers cannot reach me. I can reach peers that have Tor Hidden Services setup however. So that is a good first step.
Maybe I can use IPtables to forward the listening 127.0.0.1 port between the hardcoded ip and the 10.152.152.10 address of the gateway that I should be using? Is that possible? And if so what would the iptables lines look like?