[tor-talk] URL Addressing

Cyrus cyrus_the_great at riseup.net
Thu Dec 11 15:56:53 UTC 2014


Those addresses are private, and are not available on Tor. If they were,
the whole world would be able to use your home weather reading device.

Rocky_Tor wrote:
> Hello usprey,
> 
> Thursday, December 11, 2014, 10:12:22, you wrote:
> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address#IPv4_private_addresses
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network
> 
> Thanks for a reply.
> 
> Lead me thru this then. I type 192.168.254.16 into the regular old IE8
> or Firefox, and I wind up on a local, home, weather-reading device I'd
> installed a year ago.
> 
> If I however type that into the address bar of my nifty Tor Browser, I
> get the aforementioned error message, and not the weather-device. Which,
> BTW, hasn't a resolvable address anyway.
> 
> That I know of.
> 
> Please help me then understand where the Wiki pages tell me how to get
> to my device by typing something different.
> 
> Again OB, thanks though for answering. I just need a little steering on
> this one.
> 
> 

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