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.onion traffic never leaves the Tor network and stays inside. Clear internet is for when someone is using tor and goes to a clearnet site like blah.com. This i
by edm0nd 5y ago
.onion traffic never leaves the Tor network and stays inside.
Clear internet is for when someone is using tor and goes to a clearnet site like blah.com. This is what exit relays are for.
- wolverine876 5y agoThat is what I believed but what I saw seemed to conflict: Install the Tor Project browser, connect to an .onion host, then click on the icon that shows the route. It appears to show the route goes through non-Tor hosts (I don't call them 'clearnet' because I expect the data and some metadata is encrypted). EDIT: See this screenshot from an article elsewhere in this discussion. The blacked out bits next to "Portugal", "Germany", and "United States" are publicly routable IP addresses (IIRC): https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/forwarding-tor-hidden-services-to-another-server-across-the-internet/tor-browser-80-reverse-proxy-jamieweb.png https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/forwarding-tor-hidden-services...
- yuliyp 5y agoThis is normal: your computer picks the set of 3 relays you want to use, hence it knows their IP addresses. The 3 relays from there to the hidden service are not known to your computer though, so those are just listed as "relay"
- wolverine876 5y agoThanks.