Re: [tor-talk] AORTA - others tried it?

2018-02-10 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
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: > > $ a

Re: [tor-talk] AORTA - others tried it?

2018-02-02 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
> Note to the author of AORTA (Rob van der Hoeven), I've had AORTA to   > work on CentOS 7 which shows a kernel version 3.10 but RedHat often   > backports lots of features into older versioned software. This > might be worth noting on the webpage. > Well, the importan

Re: [tor-talk] torsocks dont find curl program

2018-01-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
simple program. I wrote the following article about AORTA: https://hoevenstein.nl/aorta-a-transparent-tor-proxy-for-linux-programs Regards, Rob van der Hoeven. https://hoevenstein.nl On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 23:18 +, intmai...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > After configuring and compiling

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Transparent Setup

2017-12-28 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi, Your problem might have something to do with the DNS configuration. The article on the Tor website uses: DNSPort 5353 Unfortunately port 5353 is the standard port for multicast DNS(mDNS) and thus might already be in use by a program involved with mDNS. You can check which program is listening

[tor-talk] AORTA - Another Onion Router Transproxy Application

2017-10-28 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi Folks, I'm proud to announce a new program of mine called AORTA. AORTA (Another Onion Router Transproxy Application) is a small Linux utility that transparently routes all TCP and DNS traffic from a program under its control through the Tor network. Usage: == aorta [aorta parameters] [p

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-26 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
> I'm curious, do you know what is failing? Are the connection requests > timing out? If you attach a controller to the tor client and watch > for circuit events, do you see the connection failing at the same > point frequently? > > (I haven't run any tests, if I have some time I will) The last

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-26 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 22:15 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 07:22:18PM +0200, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > > > Keep in mind the false positives caused by crappy networks that > > > just resolve _all_ domains and then serve ads, a captive portal, >

Re: [tor-talk] Does the Tor DNS transparent proxy code use clients nameservers?

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 22:32 +0100, Geoff Down wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 16:50 -0400, Allen wrote: > > > and what happens if you use dig alone to talk directly to tor? > > > something like "

Re: [tor-talk] Does the Tor DNS transparent proxy code use clients nameservers?

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 16:54 -0400, Allen wrote: > or maybe better "dig @localhost:torport hostname +tcp" > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Allen wrote: > > and what happens if you use dig alone to talk directly to tor? > > something like "dig -p torport hostname +tcp" (see man dig) > > Hmmm,

Re: [tor-talk] Does the Tor DNS transparent proxy code use clients nameservers?

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 16:50 -0400, Allen wrote: > and what happens if you use dig alone to talk directly to tor? > something like "dig -p torport hostname +tcp" (see man dig) > A good idea, but the Tor daemon expects that all traffic arriving on torport has been redirected by iptables. It asks IP

[tor-talk] Does the Tor DNS transparent proxy code use clients nameservers?

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi Folks, I'm testing a small single-program transproxy program that I wrote (not released yet). This program forwards DNS requests to the DNSPort of the Tor daemon. During my tests I noticed something that worries me.  With my program I can basically redirect network traffic from any program to

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
> > That's a good question. I want to know if the Tor network handles > > all TCP and DNS traffic. Only the Tor network can resolve an .onion > > address, and only the Tor network can reach an .onion address. So, > > if both resolve and requesting work, I am quite confident that Tor > > handles al

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 13:27 +, nusenu wrote: > > Rob van der Hoeven: > > I'm currently working on a small Linux utility that does single- > > program  > > transparent proxying. My utility tests if Tor handles all Internet > > traffic by requesting an

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 09:19 -0400, Allen wrote: > sounds like a useful program. I have no idea what you're looking for > though. A fast onion server to ping? As you correctly pointed out, > the facebook onion address would work for that. Yep, Facebook is fine for speed, but can block my requests.

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 13:18 +, nusenu wrote: > > Some examples: > > > > myprogram firefox https://check.torproject.org > > myprogram chromium expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion > > myprogram -t w3m expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion > > myprogram -t git clone http://dccbbv6cooddgcrq.onion/tor.git > >

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 08:50 -0400, Allen wrote: > As long as you keep the tor processing running on your web server, > the > response should be relatively quick. If you shutdown the tor process > on your web server and then restart it, it might take a few minutes > for machines on the tor network t

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Some extra info... > I use expyuzz4wqqyqhjn.onion (www.torproject.org) as test .onion > address but this address does not seem very stable to me. Getting a > response will frequently take several minutes. Is there an .onion > address available with better (and more stable) response times? I have

Re: [tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 10:34 +, nusenu wrote: > maybe any of the others are more suitable for your needs? > https://onion.torproject.org/ > I came across that list, but I really had no idea which of the entries were stable. My best bet was the Tor project onion, but this onion turned out to be

[tor-talk] Need a stable .onion address hosted by the Tor project.

2017-10-25 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
(and more stable) response times? I like to have an .onion address hosted by the Tor project, and not by a third party. Kind regards, Rob van der Hoeven https://hoevenstein.nl -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torp

[tor-talk] Can the Tor network benefit from client routers?

2016-05-13 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi folks, Lately I started running Tor on an OpenWrt router. Moving Tor from your computer(s) to the router can change the Tor-network landscape. Routers have the most direct Internet connection and they run 24/7. This opens up the opportunity to donate bandwidth to the Tor-network, and while a

Re: [tor-talk] 12.7 percent of the domains I visit are intercepted by CloudFlare

2016-04-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 19:56 +0200, Cain Ungothep wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today I got an idea of how to measure "The CloudFlare problem". It turns > > out that every time you visit a website that's behind CloudFlare a > > cookie is set with the name __cfduid > > > > If you use Firefox these cookies e

Re: [tor-talk] 12.7 percent of the domains I visit are intercepted by CloudFlare

2016-04-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Sat, 2016-04-23 at 14:03 -0500, Joe Btfsplk wrote: > On 4/23/2016 8:15 AM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today I got an idea of how to measure "The CloudFlare problem". It turns > > out that every time you visit a website that's behind Cl

[tor-talk] 12.7 percent of the domains I visit are intercepted by CloudFlare

2016-04-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi, Today I got an idea of how to measure "The CloudFlare problem". It turns out that every time you visit a website that's behind CloudFlare a cookie is set with the name __cfduid If you use Firefox these cookies end up in a SQLite database which can be queried with the SQLite Manager add-on. M

[tor-talk] Statistics (metrics) on Tor users?

2016-04-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi, I'm looking for statistics on the Tor users. The metrics website only has data on the network, not on the users. I am interested in the following data: The OS distribution - What percentage of users are using Windows/Linux/Apple/Android The web-browser distribution - It would be interesting

[tor-talk] Sharing my OpenWrt Tor configuration

2016-04-21 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi folks, Two months ago I wrote an article named: Thoughts on Tor router hardware. https://hoevenstein.nl/thoughts-on-tor-router-hardware In the article I described an ideal Tor router configuration and argued that having Tor on the router benefits both security and usability. Since the artic

[tor-talk] Thoughts on Tor router hardware

2016-02-23 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
Hi folks, The last month I have been playing with cheap Tor router hardware. This turned out to be quite a nice experience and it got me thinking about the benefits of running Tor on the router. My conclusions are that running Tor on the router can enhance both security and usability. It further

Re: [tor-talk] transparent tor routers

2016-01-18 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 15:46 +0100, Aeris wrote: > > Hardware offering Tor routing is becoming very cheap and I think it's > > time to reexamine what we can do with it. > > > > If you want to play, here is some hardware I recently bought that can > > run Tor firmware: > > > > http://www.amazon.co

Re: [tor-talk] transparent tor routers

2016-01-18 Thread Rob van der Hoeven
On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 10:15 +0100, coderman wrote: > On 1/18/16, Christian Stöveken wrote: > > ... > > I was talking to one of the tor developers at the Wauholland place the > > last day @32C3 about his opinion on transparent tor wlan boxes like > > anonabox or invinzbox and others. > > a recurre