Hi Brice,
Brice Waegeneire <address@hidden> skribis:
Today I played a bit with Tor and Guix, trying to fetch substitutes
trough
the Tor network as blaze_cornbread asked on IRC[0] how to do this. I
managed to get it working but in the end I don't think we should
encourage
people doing it this way, that's why I haven't submitted a patch to
the
cookbook for it. Currently the only supported way to proxy traffic
for
'guix-daemon' is by setting a HTTP proxy[1] the drawback is that DNS
query
will still be in clear and wont go trough the proxy in contrast to a
SOCKS5
proxy where the query will happen on the other side of the proxy.
I don’t think that’s the case: when an HTTP proxy is in use, clients
make a CONNECT or GET HTTP request to the proxy, which resolves the
host
name on their behalf. That’s why you can pass
‘--substitute-urls=http://bp7o7ckwlewr4slm.onion’ and it Just Works.
So I think you message could make a great section in the cookbook. :-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.