[tor-onions] Borg SSH could not resolve hosname

[Tortilla]

On Thu, February 18, 2021 9:11 pm, anan wrote:
> John Scott:
>> On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 01:49 +0100, anan wrote:
>>> Could not resolve hostname
>> What's happening is that Borg is trying to resolve the domain name on
>> its own instead of leaving Tor to do the job. This leaves traces for
>> your internet service provider (or whoever else resolves your DNS
>> queries), so if you need to keep the fact that you tried connecting
>> confidential, this should be taken seriously. Otherwise you may wish to
>> ignore it.
>>
>> Does the same message appear when using SSH?
>>
>>
>
> Hey, thanks for the answer!
>
> torsocks ssh works perfectly, I get no error message.
>
> Borg is supposed to use SSH for communication, so I don't understand why
> I get those name resolution errors. Borg does its job, it works ok
> through torsocks, but it shows those name resolution error messages.

In my experience, torsocks stopped being able to completely contain the
apps it wraps some time a number of years ago, but thankfully AORTA does a
better job. I never dove into the code or saw anyone explain why, but you
should try AORTA:

https://hoevenstein.nl/