[tor-talk] Three questions

[ml at ruggedinbox.com]

Hi sorry if wrong list.
Well first of all, thanks for developing and supporting Tor !!

We are trying to build a decent email service and have two questions 
that weren't able to answer on our own :)

1. when running a service as a hidden service, for example a web server, 
the client IP address is always 127.0.0.1.
Is there a way to have some more 'unique' information about the visitor, 
in order to mitigate a DDOS attack ?


2. when I connect to a hidden service, as a client, for example using 
TBB or ssh, does any of the nodes in the circuit know my final 
destination ?
Or Tor is so great that also the onion name is encrypted end-to-end ? :)


3. about connecting to ssh as a hidden service: many howtos explain to 
edit ~/.ssh/config and add a 'ProxyCommand' definition, for example this 
resource: 
http://unethicalblogger.com/2012/06/13/ssh-as-a-hidden-service.html
but we found that also torsocks (for example: torsocks ssh 
root at s4bysmmsnraf7eut.onion) works well.
We did some (simple) packet sniffing and analysis and weren't able to 
find any leak.
We prefer using torsocks because if you forget to add the ProxyCommand 
definition (thus trying to directly connect to the onion address), the 
onion address may be DNS leaked.

What do you think about using torsocks to connect to ssh as a hidden 
service ?


Thank you very much for your attention and sorry again if wrong list,
RuggedInbox team