[tor-dev] How to integrate an external name resolver into Tor

[teor]

> On 2 Aug 2016, at 23:37, Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, all!
> 
> I've seen a couple of emails from people looking into new ways to do
> naming for onion services.  That's great!  Before anybody gets too
> far, I'd like to send this quick note to let you know that integrating
> stuff like this into Tor is actually easier than you think.
> 
> Here's how you do it, using a Tor controller.  (See control-spec.txt
> for protocol documentation. Also see one of the several friendly
> libraries, like steam, that exist to interface with Tor over this
> protocol.)
> 
> First, you set the Tor option "__LeaveStreamsUnattached".  This tells
> Tor that it shouldn't try to handle new client requests immediately,
> but it should instead let the controller take responsibility.
> 
> In the controller, you make sure that you are watching STREAM events
> so that you find out about new streams.
> 
> Whenever there's a new stream, you check its address.  If the address
> is one that you don't want to rewrite, you just call ATTACHSTREAM on
> it, with a circuit ID of 0. (The 0 means "Tor, you figure out how to
> attach this one.".
> 
> Otherwise, you do whatever magic dance you do in order to find out the
> real address for the stream.
> 
> If the lookup operation is successful, you say "REDIRECTSTREAM (stream
> ID) (new address".  And then you ATTACHSTREAM as above.
> 
> If the lookup operation fails, you call "CLOSESTREAM (stream ID) 2".
> (The 2 means "resolve failed".
> 
> And that's it for the Tor integration!  All you need to do now is
> figure out how the name lookup works.

Has someone put together an example resolver that just does simple extension substitution?
It would amuse me to be able to visit 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.chive, or 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.allium.

Tim

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