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https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/forwarding-tor-hidden-services-to-another-server-across-the-internet/#why-can-t-you-natively-forward-hidden-service-across-over-th

• wolverine876 5y ago
  Thanks for all your help and I understand if I've exhausted the efforts of free HN technical help! I read the link and while I learned more about Tor, the article seems to describe how to secure Tor traffic that is forwarded to regular Internet hosts, for example if someone using a Tor client visited ycombinator.com. My question is, if you use a Tor client to visit twitterhpgjerufcvrmzerg2novpipy42rk3anvb5b7np4zggm4rwaqd.onion, why is part of the route through regular Internet hosts (afaict) and what are the implications of that? The article shows what I am describing in this screenshot; the blacked out parts next to "Portugal", "Germany", and "United States" are IP addresses: 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... (Also, my original post had it backward: the traffic goes through regular Internet hosts and then through Tor relays, not vice versa) Again, maybe I am just missing the implications of what you are saying.
  • sp332 5y ago
    Yeah I was hoping someone would fill the in the details lol.
    • I_Byte 5y ago
      I think I cleared up what was left unmentioned here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30620496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30620496 I like your initial explanation sp332, I thought it was good so I elaborated on it.