Re: Routing Guix services traffic trough Tor

[Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>]

On 2020-05-17 22:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Brice,
> 
> Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> skribis:
> 
>> Today I played a bit with Tor and Guix, trying to fetch substitutes
>> trough
>> the Tor network as blaze_cornbread asked on IRC[0] how to do this.  I
>> managed to get it working but in the end I don't think we should
>> encourage
>> people doing it this way, that's why I haven't submitted a patch to 
>> the
>> cookbook for it.  Currently the only supported way to proxy traffic 
>> for
>> 'guix-daemon' is by setting a HTTP proxy[1] the drawback is that DNS
>> query
>> will still be in clear and wont go trough the proxy in contrast to a
>> SOCKS5
>> proxy where the query will happen on the other side of the proxy.
> 
> I don’t think that’s the case: when an HTTP proxy is in use, clients
> make a CONNECT or GET HTTP request to the proxy, which resolves the 
> host
> name on their behalf.  That’s why you can pass
> ‘--substitute-urls=http://bp7o7ckwlewr4slm.onion’ and it Just Works.
> 
> So I think you message could make a great section in the cookbook.  :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.