[tor-talk] Hidden Services - how to implement something like Round Robin DNS?

Jeremy Rand biolizard89 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 21:45:32 UTC 2014


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On 09/30/2014 05:28 PM, coderman wrote:
> On 9/27/14, Jeremy Rand <biolizard89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... Namecoin would make this pretty easy.  Last I checked the
>> current Namecoin domain name spec only supports round-robin DNS
>> for IPv4/IPv6 and not Tor/I2P, but there's consensus that that
>> will be changed soon to allow round-robin for Tor and I2P as
>> well.  Note that to my knowledge there aren't any implementations
>> of that feature yet.
> 
> i have been using modified local resolvers and web clients with 
> namecoin for this purpose.  c.f.: peertech.bit expires in 5618
> blocks Raw value: '{tor:j5ivfpymes6h2kg4.onion,info:peertech
> hidden 
> services,alias:[j5ivfpymes6h2kg4.onion.,gc6y6skl3am6jsng.onion.,tvty3r2fyrwuc6b5.onion.]}'
>
>  as one experiment.  it will indeed be convenient once "out of the
> box" support for Tor/I2P is provided...
> 
> 
> best regards,
> 

Hi coderman,

Any chance you could provide more details on what you're using?  Last
I heard the only Namecoin resolvers that handle Tor/I2P services were
FreeSpeechMe and NMCSocks; FreeSpeechMe doesn't handle round-robin,
and I'm pretty sure NMCSocks doesn't either.

- -Jeremy
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