[tor-dev] Second release of OnioNS beta

2015-09-29 Thread Jesse V
Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce the second release of the Onion Name System (OnioNS) for beta testing. This release represents about 180 commits and is a major update from my last release. The two servers should be up long-term, so feel free to play around with it. "Example.tor" is li

Re: [tor-dev] Special-use-TLD support

2015-09-29 Thread Jeremy Rand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/29/2015 07:39 AM, Jeff Burdges wrote: > On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 00:59 +, Jeremy Rand wrote: > >> The issue I do see is that SPV validation doesn't work well >> unless you ask multiple peers to make sure that you're getting >> the chain with

Re: [tor-dev] Special-use-TLD support

2015-09-29 Thread Tim Wilson-Brown - teor
> On 29 Sep 2015, at 09:39, Jeff Burdges wrote: > >> The issue I do see is that SPV validation doesn't work well unless >> you >> ask multiple peers to make sure that you're getting the chain with >> the >> most PoW. So I gather that this would require connecting to Namecoin >> peers running on

Re: [tor-dev] Special-use-TLD support

2015-09-29 Thread Jeff Burdges
On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 00:59 +, Jeremy Rand wrote: > Do I infer correctly that the main intention of this is to decrease > the possibility of attack by a Sybil attack on the Namecoin network, > by making the Namecoin peer selection process have similar properties > to Tor relay selection (which

Re: [tor-dev] Special-use-TLD support

2015-09-29 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 09/29/2015 12:19 AM, Jeff Burdges wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 16:26 -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 03:20:47PM +0200, Jeff Burdges wrote: >>> I proposed that Tor implement NameService rules using UNIX domain >>> sockets, or ports, since that's how GNUNet works, but m