Post AKtZFW52SlSW5dEXXU by mrbitterness@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #AKbVuJIWHtYlDBjOTo by atyh@pleroma.atyh.cc
       2022-06-18T06:06:38.056454Z
       
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       Ive been experimenting with Gopher over Tor.Some of the people from Suckless software have been working on the Bitreich project, which focuses on increasing the use of the Gopher protocol through developing software for it and community around it. One of the things they are doing is pairing Tor with Gopher, which creates something really interesting. Gopher with Tor creates a fast, encrypted, anonymous, minimal web protocol.If you want to experiment with it, its not difficult to set up. You just need to download and set up the Tor daemon, and download Torsocks to interact with it. If you are on OpenBSD, this is as simple as:doas pkg_add tor torsocksdoas rcctl enable tordoas rcctl start torThen you can open gopher urls over tor with something like:torsocks lynx gopher://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onionYou can read more about gopher over tor here:gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion
       
 (DIR) Post #AKtZFW52SlSW5dEXXU by mrbitterness@mstdn.social
       2022-06-26T18:26:49Z
       
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       @atyh I found lynx unable to open onion addresses. but using tor w/the base gopher command works well for the most part. Curious if this is just me. Are you able to open .onion addresses with lynx?
       
 (DIR) Post #AKtZFWrxWsagXM7bn6 by atyh@pleroma.atyh.cc
       2022-06-26T23:08:51.653903Z
       
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       @mrbitterness Yes.If I "torsocks --shell", and then lynx gopher://whateveraddress.onion, it works for me. Also, I have a tor daemon running, which torsocks connects to.
       
 (DIR) Post #AKttHRwCpkRiu9Ik3E by mrbitterness@mstdn.social
       2022-06-27T02:43:18Z
       
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       @atyh have tor / torsocks, but everytime I try, including w/shell option like you have above, it almost immediately returns "Alert! Unable to access document"., Can do it w/the gopher command (using tor/torsocks) just not lynx. that's working well enough for me I suppose, it's just bugging me that I can't figure it out. I'll have to mess w/it some more, look at lynx config and see if there's something I'm missing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AKttHSPd4LywNP4Eue by atyh@pleroma.atyh.cc
       2022-06-27T02:53:18.864371Z
       
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       @mrbitterness Hm.The only thing I can think of is that Im getting lucky due to default OpenBSD settings.All I did was install lynx, install tor, and tor socks, and then "doas rcctl tor enable tor", so the system tor daemon is running./etc/torsocks.conf has:TorAddress 127.0.0.1TorPort 9050If you are running tor as a system daemon, I would check to see that the TorPort setting in /etc/torsocks.conf is matched to the port the tor daemon is using.Beyond that Im not sure.If tor daemon is running, and torsocks is matched to the right port, im not sure why it wouldnt be connecting. Unless the system firewall is blocking the tor daemon traffic...
       
 (DIR) Post #AKttOwus3Sfn0fFk1o by atyh@pleroma.atyh.cc
       2022-06-27T02:54:41.172519Z
       
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       @mrbitterness Hm.The only thing I can think of is that Im getting lucky due to default OpenBSD settings.All I did was install lynx, install tor, and tor socks, and then "doas rcctl enable tor", doas rcctl start tor", so the system tor daemon is running./etc/torsocks.conf has:TorAddress 127.0.0.1TorPort 9050If you are running tor as a system daemon, I would check to see that the TorPort setting in /etc/torsocks.conf is matched to the port the tor daemon is using.Beyond that Im not sure.If tor daemon is running, and torsocks is matched to the right port, im not sure why it wouldnt be connecting. Unless the system firewall is blocking the tor daemon traffic...