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IRC over Tor (self.irc)

submitted 2 years ago by wgs to c/irc

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Does anyone do this ? I've been using irssi for years but it does not support using a SOCKS proxy which makes it unsuitable for this purpose.

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[–] nocko 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There are programs which replace the network calls with SOCKS routines. The currently recommended one seems to be: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

[–] wgs 1 points 2 years ago

This is correct indeed. However I should have specified that I already tried using torsocks with irssi, and it doesn't work:

Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCP DNS query to a local DNS server. Rejecting it for safety reasons. (in tsocks_connect() at connect.c:191)

Apparently irssi does not play well with torsocks. They mention using ProxyChain-NG, but I'd rather use torsocks with another client, or even better, use a client that supports SOCKS proxies.

I was just curious to know what other people might be doing :)

[–] pneumapunk 3 points 2 years ago

I played with this briefly a while back, and I think both weechat and hexchat worked okay through a SOCKS proxy.