<div dir="ltr"><div>It wasn't designed to work with tor only. It's not an .onion address. It does work with tor, as any site would. I can also access it through my phone, and my VPN is connecting from someplace like Idaho or something on that device. I don't remember exactly where I have it pointing. My nephew in Va. also can access it, and has joined my bbs... That's weird. </div><div><br></div><div>But yeah, you're right. I just ran nmap on the hostname and it says it's not there. But tor and my vpn in idaho (or wherever) connects with no problem. Hmmm...</div><div><br></div><div>willieb@bloodlands:~$ ps -aux | grep ngrok<br>root 4655 0.0 0.4 1252484 37124 ? Sl Sep23 0:41 ngrok http 80 --config /app/.ngrok2/ngrok.yml --url=<a href="http://bloodlands.shadows.ngrok.dev">bloodlands.shadows.ngrok.dev</a><br>willieb 98358 0.0 0.0 6340 2156 pts/1 S+ 16:51 0:00 grep --color=auto ngrok</div><div><br></div><div>I-<br>willieb@bloodlands:~$ sudo journalctl -u ngrok.service<br>Aug 25 22:15:06 bloodlands systemd[1]: Started ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:09 bloodlands ngrok[752]: INFO[08-25|22:15:09] detect init system sys=linux-systemd<br>Aug 25 22:15:09 bloodlands ngrok[752]: INFO[08-25|22:15:09] open config file path=/root/C:ngrok.yml err="open /root/C:ngro><br>Aug 25 22:15:09 bloodlands ngrok[752]: Failed to load configuration: Error reading configuration file '/root/C:ngrok.yml': open /root/C:ngrok.yml:><br>Aug 25 22:15:09 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<br>Aug 25 22:15:09 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.<br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.<br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands systemd[1]: Stopped ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands systemd[1]: Started ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands ngrok[1055]: INFO[08-25|22:15:24] detect init system sys=linux-systemd<br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands ngrok[1055]: INFO[08-25|22:15:24] open config file path=/root/C:ngrok.yml err="open /root/C:ngr><br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands ngrok[1055]: Failed to load configuration: Error reading configuration file '/root/C:ngrok.yml': open /root/C:ngrok.yml><br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<br>Aug 25 22:15:24 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.<br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.<br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands systemd[1]: Stopped ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands systemd[1]: Started ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands ngrok[2993]: INFO[08-25|22:15:39] detect init system sys=linux-systemd<br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands ngrok[2993]: INFO[08-25|22:15:39] open config file path=/root/C:ngrok.yml err="open /root/C:ngr><br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands ngrok[2993]: Failed to load configuration: Error reading configuration file '/root/C:ngrok.yml': open /root/C:ngrok.yml><br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<br>Aug 25 22:15:39 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.<br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3.<br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands systemd[1]: Stopped ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands systemd[1]: Started ngrok.service - ngrok secure tunnel client.<br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands ngrok[3313]: INFO[08-25|22:15:54] detect init system sys=linux-systemd<br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands ngrok[3313]: INFO[08-25|22:15:54] open config file path=/root/C:ngrok.yml err="open /root/C:ngr><br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands ngrok[3313]: Failed to load configuration: Error reading configuration file '/root/C:ngrok.yml': open /root/C:ngrok.yml><br>Aug 25 22:15:54 bloodlands systemd[1]: ngrok.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE</div><div><br></div><div>Apparently, you are all right. I don't understand why my VPN and tor are still telling me the site is up, though. And nmap also agrees with y'all. It's looking for the yaml file (all of a sudden at somplace like /C:/windowscrap/andmorewindowscrap). Apparently the system upgraded it and the call for version 295 wasn't changed in the ngrok.service file (the latest in my snap dir is 315, and 295 is non-existent). I fixed the service file, now I've got to find the yaml file. Thank God for "find" because I can't remember where it is... lol...</div><div><br></div><div>I've got tinkering to do. Fixed the .yml path... still won't run. I still don't understand why tor and my phone can find it through those vpns... ?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 3:01 AM Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:44:52 -0400<br>
William Wylde via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
<br>
> > The preceding URL didn't resolve, giving a "ERR_NGROK_3200",<br>
> > whatever that means. I know of one distro, whose filthy name I<br>
> > won't mention, who not only used 6 point fonts on X11, but arranged<br>
> > their framebuffer to to use the same tiny fonts.<br>
> ><br>
> > <br>
> It works for me through the tor network. Are you using google<br>
> nameservers? They sometimes mess with ngrok addresses. You tube<br>
> does too. You have to use a tinurl to get them to work off YouTube.<br>
<br>
Dohhhh! Teaches me to skim over replies. I didn't involve the tor<br>
network at all. If it was supposed to be used with tor, my not being<br>
able to pull it up is the URL operating as designed.<br>
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