Before running fw-daemon, make sure to export: GODEBUG=cgocheck=0 Also, here's a default fw-daemon-socks.json config file: root@subgraph:/# cat /etc/fw-daemon-socks.json { "SocksListener": "tcp|127.0.0.1:9998", "TorSocks": "tcp|127.0.0.1:9050" }