Am 24.01.2015 um 14:28 schrieb David Serrano:
> On 2015-01-24 12:48:18 (+0100), Markus Hitter wrote:
>>
>> http://www.freenode.org/irc_servers.shtml#tor
> 
> Besides the snippet you quoted, that page says "The primary Tor hidden service
> address for freenode is frxleqtzgvwkv7oz.onion". This is how Freenode welcomes
> tor users.

Thanks for pointing this out, I indeed snipped some of the text there. The 
reason I did is, it bugged me less that one needs to do extra steps to connect 
anonymously. That's mostly expected.

What bugs me is that it's apparently impossible or at least severely restricted 
to participate in IRC the normal, non-tor way and to run a Tor relay at the 
same time. This doesn't match well, IMHO.

Trying this .onion address results in this:

[14:54] * Looking up frxleqtzgvwkv7oz.onion
[14:54] * Unknown host. Maybe you misspelled it?

I take that .onion addresses are available through Tor, only. And even when 
going through Tor Freenode still requires user authentication by SASL, which is 
not anonymous, because you have to get this account through a normal 
connection. Not to mention all the hassles required for running two networks in 
parallel on one router or PC and the extra load for the Tor network.


Am 24.01.2015 um 14:30 schrieb Lukas Erlacher:

> I recommend you reread freenode's explanations carefully.

I did, and the still open question is, doesn't mean restricting ports 80, 443 
and the IRC ones make running the relay a pretty useless operation? Without all 
these ports, which kinds of communication are left?


Markus

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