konstant at mail2tor.com (konstant at 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.
<snip> Before finding this thread (via doublec's blog) I had taken a different approach to using Freenet via Tor. I focused first on connecting with opennet peers without revealing the node's public IP address. The node is a VirtualBox VM with no public IP address. It has no Internet connectivity except through the tor daemon, which is running in another VM. The node reaches the Internet through an anonymously-leased VPS as a proxy. There's a p2p OpenVPN link (10.10.0.1 10.10.0.2) with the proxy via OnionCat. I used "node.bindTo=0.0.0.0" and "node.opennet.bindTo=0.0.0.0", and the OnionCat IPv6 address for "node.ipAddressOverride". The "physical.udp" in the node reference for strangers points to the IP public address of the proxy. In the node reference for friends, "physical.udp" points to all local IP addresses. That's not problematic, because the node has no public IP address. With appropriate NAT and routing, the node connects with about ten opennet strangers from seednodes. Other darknet peers connected via OnionCat can browse opennet sites. Although the proxy VPS can be identified through opennet peers, it neither retains any content nor knows the public IP address of the actual node. Traffic between the proxy and node is routed through OnionCat, and secured via OpenVPN. If there's interest, I'd be happy to set this up as a seednode, both on OnionCat and the open Internet. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
