I'am facing some trouble to access all Google services. It is a kind of DNS problem of my ISP. I tried to solve this problem temporary by myself using Tor because Ubuntu Dapper has Tor. Unfortunately, the latest Tor in Ubuntu Dapper is 0.1.1.16 which is already obsoleted so I saw below log in /var/log/tor/log.

Sep 09 18:53:50.167 [notice] Tor 0.1.0.16 opening log file.
Sep 09 18:53:50.181 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.1a using method epoll
Sep 09 18:53:51.422 [notice] directory_get_from_dirserver(): No running dirservers known. Not trying. (purpose 1)
Sep 09 19:12:18.345 [notice] Application request when we're believed to be offline. Optimistically trying again.
Sep 09 19:12:41.713 [warn] You are running Tor version 0.1.0.16, which will not work with this network.
Please use one of 0.1.0.18,0.1.1.23.
Sep 09 19:12:45.662 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like it's working.

It seemed to work but in fact was not at all. From the official Tor web, I found 0.1.1.23 but it is not available in Ubuntu Dapper. Eventually, I found its repository at TorOnDebian.

In summary, I just need to add below lines to /etc/apt/sources.list.

deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor dapper main
deb-src http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor dapper main

Then update your local cache and install the new one.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor

Good luck.

Tags: tor, ubuntu, dapper