On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Lunar lunar@torproject.org wrote:
Nick Mathewson:
204 Subdomain support for Hidden Service addresses [FINISHED]
This one allows an (ignored) foo at the front of foo.bar.onion, for subdomain support. Sadly, I bet it will never see much use with the introduction of longer onion addresses in our next-gen hidden service design.Could you elaborate on that last statement?
AFAIK, this feature has not been advertised at all yet because 0.2.4 is still unfortunately not stable.
Well, it's not *officially* stable, but it's sure the Tor I would recommend to all my friends nowadays.
The initial idea was to be able to support access through a single hidden service to mass-hosting platforms, think of all blogs at *.wordpress.com or *.noblogs.org. Why would the longer onion addresses be a problem in that regard?
So, suppose that I have a blogging platform running as a hidden service. The base hostname might be something like "cmktn5wni9uinp1niixoh8gzf2oqkcwckcexwe8zutfn5uu7zbb.onion".
Individual blogs might be at: technology.cmktn5wni9uinp1niixoh8gzf2oqkcwckcexwe8zutfn5uu7zbb.onion, lemurs.cmktn5wni9uinp1niixoh8gzf2oqkcwckcexwe8zutfn5uu7zbb.onion, drama.cmktn5wni9uinp1niixoh8gzf2oqkcwckcexwe8zutfn5uu7zbb.onion
My thought had been that the long addresses are likely to make people a bit disinclined to use even longer addresses. But I guess we'll see; there's no reason to actually remove the feature.