[tahoe-dev] tahoe-lafs and socks proxies?

Jody Harris imhavoc at gmail.com
Fri Dec 18 00:21:02 UTC 2009


I abandoned this approach as soon as I realized that I could achieve the
same results with a helper.

jody
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com> wrote:

>
> >     As far as I understand, this would be dependent on the Twisted
> library
> >     supporting socks (as a client):
> >     <http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3508>
>
> For "native" use of a SOCKS proxy, like if you wanted to be able to just
> add a line to your tahoe.cfg file and have all network traffic go
> through the proxy, then yeah, we'd need support from Twisted that isn't
> there yet.
>
> But most SOCKS implementations provide a "runsocks" or "tsocks" launcher
> which uses shared-library tricks to cause an unsuspecting program's
> socket calls to use the proxy instead of going out direct. Tahoe should
> run just fine under one of these. "tsocks tahoe start NODEDIR" instead
> of the usual "tahoe start NODEDIR", or possibly "tsocks tahoe run
> NODEDIR" if tsocks can't handle the daemonization handoff.
>
> You'd want to look carefully at the address+port that the node deduces
> for itself, since they might not be correct, but you can override those
> with the tub.location setting in tahoe.cfg . It's similar to the way
> that you'd run a Tahoe node behind Tor.
>
> If you get this working, and can write up a basic example, we'd love to
> include them in the docs.
>
> cheers,
>  -Brian
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