12/05/2011 02:08 AM, anonym:
> 12/02/2011 10:15 PM, intrigeri:
>>
>> - "Torify seahorse": does Seahorse really ignore the global GNOME
>> HTTP proxy settings? Bug report?
>
> When I did the tests the indymedia hidden service were unavailable, so I
> tried hkp://keys.gnupg.net, which consistently failed without even
> listing a connection in vidalia. Using torify immediately made it work.
>
> Some minutes ago I booted up the same build and noticed that the hidden
> service is back up. Somewhat surprisingly, searching and fetching keys
> works without using torify. Did I have gremlins in my tubes earlier? No,
> it seems. If I switch to keys.gnupg.net I still get the same problems as
> I experienced before. Perplexing. I'll investigate this further
> tomorrow. Wild guess: it has something to do with .onions getting
> remapped by Tor to a virtual address (see the AutomapHosts* and
> VirtualAddrNetwork options in torrc).
My guess seems correct. After adding .net to AutomapHostsSuffixes I can
confirm that keys.gnupg.net works without torify. This also made Gnome
VFS FTP work on .net hosts. It seems Tor's remapping to virtual
addresses + our previous transparent socks proxying made things very
easy for us...
