Problems with Stunnel, Freecap, and Tor

From: Ziggi (notfor_at_you.toknow)
Date: 05/28/05

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    Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 04:20:19 GMT

    Hi guys! First time poster here, please don't kill me :-D

    Okay. Gist of it is this. I've been trying to set things up so that
    my usenet usage is "anonymized." I picked up a FAQ that gives a
    pretty good how-to on that, using Stunnel, Freecap, and Tor.

    Now, I'm kinda new to network security. I'm an old hat at personal
    computer security, but networks have always left me lost and slightly
    confused. Lets see if I've got this right; I need to set things up
    so that my newsreader communicates through Stunnel, which encrypts my
    data. After that, Stunnel's output goes through Freecap, thus
    preparing it for use with Tor. Tor takes it and routes it through a
    whole bunch of servers and crap, and eventually (so the theory goes)
    the data comes out somewhere way off from where I am, encrypted (with
    Stunnel) and then travels to my news service. If that's right, then I
    guess I learned something :-P

    Well, the thing is this. I've been able to set up Stunnel to serve as
    a bridge between my newsreader and my newsservice, and I follow the
    steps in the FAQ exactly for configuring Stunnel to work through
    Freecap and Tor, but whenever I start Stunnel from Freecap, it gives
    me this error

    Error resolving '0.0.0.0': Neither nodename nor servname known
    (EAI_NONAME)

    Now, I've got no clue where it's getting 0.0.0.0 from. That address
    isn't in my stunnel.conf file at all, so there's no clues there. For
    the life of me, I just can't figure this out on my own.

    Could anyone possibly give me a hint as to what I'm doing wrong?

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