On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:40:52AM -0400, Webmaster wrote: > With the availability of new TLDs, is there/would there be a > concern if someone applied for the .onion tld? Would this affect > the current system?
In short, no. Tor clients treat .onion addresses specially, and don't go to dns servers for them at all. The only way it would matter is if your Tor client configuration is screwed up and your browser isn't actually using Tor. In the current case you'll ask your local dns server about the address, and it (you hope) will return a "resolve failed" answer. If somebody registers the .onion tld, then maybe it would send you somewhere else if your Tor is misconfigured. With the Tor Browser Bundle, such misconfigurations are pretty uncommon these days (assuming users actually use the bundle we provide). See also https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/6116 Oh, and I guess if whoever gets .onion puts content on it that Tor users want to reach, we might want to reconsider. But come on, how likely is that? :) --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
