[Freedombox-discuss] finding each other. was: Re: I'm new here

Pavol Luptak pavol.luptak at nethemba.com
Tue Nov 29 22:39:38 UTC 2011


On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:54:24PM -0500, The Doctor wrote:
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> On 11/19/2011 08:28 PM, James Vasile wrote:
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> > That's an interesting idea.  I haven't actually studied up on how
> > Tor does hidden services yet.  How are Tor they found?  What if a
> > box running such a service moves to a new IP?  How do you find a
> > Tor hidden service if it's inside a firewall?
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> To access a hidden Tor service, you have to know the hostname of the
> site (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.onion) beforehand.  Generally speaking, they
> are passed around on directories usually found on the Tor darknet
> itself (there are a few publically advertised wikis that act as link
> directories) but they can also be passed around by word of mouth.  The

Or you can use namecoin and make .bit tor hidden service alias, e.g. 
my_anonymous_domain.bit:

http://dot-bit.org/Domain_names#Value_field
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