On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:50 -0500, basile wrote: > arshad wrote: > > > > and can you please explain this below? > > > > quote: > > The only known disadvantage is that it cannot host Tor hidden services > > which would require other services (e.g. http), and their resources > > (e.g. hard drive space), in addition to the Tor server itself. However, > > as a middle or exit node, it is ideal. > > > > > To run a hidden service, you first need to run a service, like a web > page. To run a web page you need to have some web pages and an apache > server. You would further need php and mysql if you want a blog or > wiki. On top of that you run tor. See > http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en > > But all the ramdisk image has in it is a kernel, 3 binaries (tor, ntpd > and busybox) and one ash script. You can't run the service there. I > guess you could run it on another machine behind tor-ramdisk. > > With tor-ramdisk I was just thinking of running a relay or exit node > where you could just pull the plug and poof! Nothing to see here ... >
thank you very much for the explanation :) *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
