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xamolxix on Oct 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reading the Silk Road configuration

> The onion server should not be able to access the internet directly and should never know it's own IP-address.

I may be overly pedantic here but it should be "public IP address" as there is no TCP/IP without an IP address. The address may be in the private ranges, though.

nisa on Oct 3, 2014 [–]

Yes. I wrote that in a hurry. I'm surprised the comment is on the top. This was purely theoretical speculation. I don't run a hidden service.

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