My seednode freenet.nullvoid.me is now Tor ready. Please it test to confirm that it is letting you connect to Tor only nodes via opennet.
The seednode.fref file will be updated with the next release to my understanding. Shout out to doublec and nextgens for helping me set it up. konst...@mail2tor.com: > > To give some background, I had an interesting discussion on ways of > reaching Freenet from other networks. Onioncat creates a p2p VPN overlay > for tunnelling TCP, UDP, ICMP or any other protocol over Tor and I2P. > Freenet can communicate over it. This works for Darknet mode and hopefully > Opennet once some seednodes get going. I'll focus on Tor because of better > performance. IRC is not a good medium for sharing steps so I'll do it > here. > > > HOW? > > Instructions for Tor seednodes > > > Step 0. Install Tor > > Step 1. Create a hidden service > > Open /etc/tor/torrc and modify: > > HiddenServiceDir /etc/tor/ocat/ > HiddenServicePort 8060 127.0.0.1:8060 > > > Step 2. Find the hostname of your hidden service > > run or restart tor. > cat /etc/tor/ocat/hostname > For example: c4cryzqdjns2i3je.onion > > > Step 3. Install Onioncat > > sudo apt-get install onioncat > > > Step 4. Start Onioncat in server mode by turning off unidirectional mode. > Ocat will drop its privileges after it has created the TUN interface > > sudo ocat c4cryzqdjns2i3je.onion -U > > > Step 5. Turn Onioncat into a system service > > Edit /etc/default/onioncat and uncomment: > > ENABLED=yes > > Add extra settings: > > DAEMON_OPTS=-U > > > Step 6. Discover your Onioncat IPv6 address and include it in seednodes.fref > > ocat -i c4cryzqdjns2i3je.onion > > > The more seednodes that become hybrids, the better. All a user needs to do > is run an Onioncat in server mode to connect. > > > WHY? > > Works today without code hacking from your team. Chinese users can reach > Freenet again. Tor Exits are not overloaded. Entices Tor users to run > Freenet, expanding the network and raising interest. The seednodes can > serve as bridges between Onioncat Freenet and vanilla Freenet nodes > keeping the network unified. > > > PREEMPTIVE FAQ: > > Q: The latency will be horrible? > > A: Not true. Tor performance has been improving dramatically for a while > now. Tor will almost never be the bottleneck. Odds are the person saying > this used it in a decade. My experience with many applications over > Onioncat was excellent including Freenet in darknet mode. > > > Q: Tor developers don't want Freenet's traffic load! > > A: They may be concerned over Exit bandwidth because its more precious but > my suggestion keeps all Freenet traffic inside the network. A study > concluded Tor hidden service are under-utilized traffic as making up only > 3% of the total. Looking at a comment by a Tor developer, you will see > that to the contrary, they are interested in adding higher latency traffic > like Freenet and mixnets for better anonymity: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/crowdfunding-future-hidden-services > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
