Directory icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
Directory copied to clipboard

Onion domains

Open rugk opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

There were quite some bins that (alos) offer onion domains.

How do we deal with these? Either integrate Tor support (hard) or do not check them(?).

rugk avatar Mar 30 '20 22:03 rugk

They are currently not supported, because:

  1. .onion domains don't resolve on the root DNS servers, so it fails when looking up the IP of the given hostname (it's therefore considered an invalid hostname).
  2. checking would require access to a tor client in proxy mode. Using such a setup would let us use the tor DNS, which also would solve 1. and let us access it. But this is a tricky setup and I have contractual obligations not to host tor exits or route tor traffic by my server housing provider, so for now it's out of scope.

elrido avatar Mar 31 '20 10:03 elrido

Yeah, I'd already think it is out-of scope. So maybe there should be a way (for admins as you, at least) to manually add instances (and their status)?

rugk avatar Mar 31 '20 11:03 rugk

I rather have this fully automated and low maintenance. I had been considering to allow admins to add custom descriptions via a static text file or configuration option in some new API endpoint on their instance - maybe a feature for 1.4 in the scope of the federation ticket.

elrido avatar Mar 31 '20 11:03 elrido

how can i find some onion domains? i would like to test my cli client on them.

cbluth avatar Aug 14 '21 18:08 cbluth

There are currently two onion domains listed in the wiki directory.

elrido avatar Aug 14 '21 19:08 elrido