[tor-talk] TOR peer-to-peer network

krishna e bera keb at cyblings.on.ca
Mon Dec 2 01:48:36 UTC 2013


On 13-12-01 02:49 PM, Seth David Schoen wrote:
> Aravindan B writes:
>
>>> When i use the bridges which i got from the internet, it works. whereas
>>> when i try to use my own IPs its not working. Please let me know how to
>>> proceed on this as i am stuck here for a long time. Thanks in advance.
>
> If you want to create your own Tor network, you'll need to run your
> own directory server and tell all of the clients and routers to use
> and trust it.  The directory servers collect information about all
> publicly-available Tor nodes so that clients can get a list and then
> choose which nodes the clients want to build circuits through.

i would have thought peer to peer networking in Tor would use the Hidden 
Services model. each Tor hidden service generates a unique and 
persistent onion id, which other Tor clients can use to communicate with it.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en



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