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It is possible to run ipfs behind tor. And I'd argue it is the right way to do so.
by snvzz 4y ago
It is possible to run ipfs behind tor.
And I'd argue it is the right way to do so.
- deknos 4y agohow? i am behind NAT for example, i tried doing it. it did not work. Is there a way for people who have just 20 mbit/s up/downstream and do not have an stable IP addres from home behind NAT? I would run a server for long for seeding if it would be over TOR.
- xwolfi 4y agoDude come on, 20mb/s who will you serve with that, forget about it and move near a backbone.
- brokenmachine 4y agoIf he's got the rare file that you need, who cares if he's on 20mb/s or 2mb/s? Pepperidge Farm remembers 300 baud.
- deknos 4y agoWell.. do you have Money for moving and paying subscription? :D
- _joel 4y agoThat's the point of p2p with multiple seed though, every extra bps helps.
- tiluha 4y agoRunning a hidden service on Tor should work without problems behind NAT
- deknos 4y agoYou mean, i can do a Hidden Service from behind NAT and connect that to IPFS via onion URL? Let me see if i can figure this out :D
- 8t88t8tttt8 4y agoDoesn't that saturate Tor? Bittorrent via Tor was always highly discouraged to not overload the network with all the p2p traffic and IPFS is a very similar technique.
- staringback 4y ago> Doesn't that saturate Tor? No, that's a stupid myth that needs to die. The tor network is nowhere near the advertised bandwidth capacity: https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html https://metrics.torproject.org/bandwidth-flags.html
- 8t88t8tttt8 4y agohttps://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-4/ https://support.torproject.org/misc/misc-4/ links to TODO which says "We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;" and links to a dead page "Why Tor is slow". I googled that and found https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Why_is_Tor_slow#Misuse_of_the_Tor_Network https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Why_is_Tor_slow#Misuse_of_the_To... and https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/slow/index.en.html https://tails.boum.org/doc/anonymous_internet/tor/slow/index... which sound like they were both sourced from that defunct page. So, if you call it a stupid myth, please provide some credible proof. The Tor developers as well as the maintainers of two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you.
- staringback 4y ago> We've been saying for years not to run Bittorrent over Tor, because the Tor network can't handle the load;" 12 year old blog post. Both the tor network and internet as a whole are completely different. > two highly respected tools built upon Tor disagree with you Both of those pages have a citation that says "it is bad.... just cause it is okay!" The credible evidence is in my original comment, that shows hundreds of gigabits being underutilized on the network.
- thetoon 4y agoAny pointer on that?
- imhoguy 4y agoIPFS wont run via Tor, DHT is UDP based and Tor doesn't support UDP by design. Did my research last weekend, anybody more knowledgable, please correct me if I am wrong. Possibly it should run fine via I2P or Yggdrasil.
- snvzz 4y agoGoogled ipfs and tor just to make sure it's not hard to find. The first result was a guide on how to do it.
- thetoon 4y agoI'm not sure pointing to Google is "correcting him". But yeah, a good guide on how to use IPFS as an hidden service would be pretty useful. (edit:typo)
- deknos 4y agodid you also TEST it? last time i did this, it never really connected to the IPFS network. also it was marked as experimental
- MayeulC 4y agoYggdrasil is not really anonymous, though.
- 3np 4y agoIf you have a way to run ipfs over tor, please share.