Talks of hidden services and DNS

Ringo Kamens 2600denver at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 15:44:24 UTC 2007


There already was a service like this within tor called... well I
forget the name. The problem with such a system outside tor is they
they could be ordered to remove DNS entries and then it would censor
those onion sites. Does anybody remember the name of that program?
Ringo Kamens

On 3/11/07, Kasimir Gabert <kasimir.g at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am new to this list (and Tor in general), but I have been wanting to
> contribute for awhile.
>
> As I understand it (correct me if I am wrong -- I am very new), the
> .onion TLDs are built up from two hexadecimal parts, so they are
> cannot be something that is easy to remember (such as
> hiddenwiki.onion).
>
> I am wondering whether there have been any talks of running a DNS
> system (outside of Tor) that would convert something like .hidden TLDs
> into .onion.  This would allow server administrators to pick domains
> that make sense, and would allow publishing things as hidden services
> to become more broadly used.
>
> It would not have to run inside of Tor, but would have to be
> accessible to Tor.  I think most of the current tools for DNS (BIND
> and such) would work relatively well, and might require only a few
> hacks (we could even have everything just be CNAMEs instead of A
> records).
>
> Am I missing something big?  I think this would make running hidden
> services much easier if Tor gets larger -- and they will be much more
> enticing to use for the Tor users.
>
> --
> Kasimir Gabert
>



More information about the tor-talk mailing list