[tor-talk] AORTA - others tried it?

[alen.alen at powdermail.com]

> TorSocks preloads a DLL that contains all the TCP/DNS functions from
> the normal c library. This makes the program use the TorSocks functions
> instead of the c library functions. This is the "old" way of
> interception and takes place in user space.
>
> AORTA intercepts and redirects TCP/DNS traffic inside kernel space.
> What AORTA does is not visible to the program, and also works with
> statically linked programs. AORTA is a much more simple program (thanks
> to the hard work of the kernel en iptables developers). Except for
> programs that clone an already running instance the interception and
> redirection of AORTA *should* be guaranteed. NOTE *should* because
> AORTA is a new program that has not undergone the same testing that
> TorSocks has. Note also that I did test AORTA on different Linux
> distributions (Debian, Unbuntu, Mint, Arch Linux) using a wide range of
> programs.
>
> On my Debian system, programs like Firefox and Chromium do not work
> with TorSocks. For AORTA I haven't been able to find a program that
> does not work under AORTA. Please let me know if you have a program
> that does not work with AORTA.

Well, I'm not sure what is cause this:

$ aorta -c -t telnet abcd1234abcd1234.onion 80

WARNING NOT testing if Tor handles all Internet traffic.

RUNNING telnet abcd1234abcd1234.onion 80
Trying 10.216.233.115...
telnet: connect to address 10.216.233.115: Connection timed out
Trying fa93:ac5e:c801:b104:ad21:2e27:0f18:b4f...
telnet: connect to address fa93:ac5e:c801:b104:ad21:2e27:0f18:b4f:  
Invalid argument

AORTA CLOSED ...

OTOH this works fine:

$ torsocks telnet abcd1234abcd1234.onion 80
Trying 127.39.20.0...
Connected to abcd1234abcd1234.onion.
Escape character is '^]'.

Why is AORTA failing, also why is result of trying to connect on IPV6  
"Invalid argument"?



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