[Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

[Lee Fisher]

On 8/16/11 8:11 AM, Ted Smith wrote:
 > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 14:24 +0200, Henry Story wrote:
 >> Is there a good link to .onion urls ? Wikipedia does not mention
 >> those. I am wondering if .onion urls can be resolved using DNS or if
 >> they require a special protocol. If they require a special protocol,
 >> then one can't simply write
 >>
 >> http://1231231231.onion/ because the http URL spec requires DNS
 >> resolution there. One would need to a number
 >> of onion schemes otherwise.
 >
 > The wikipedia article is here:
 > <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/.onion>
 >
 > Tor has its own lookup protocol for .onion names. [...]

Besides the Wikipedia article, Tor defines .onion vTLD here:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=address-spec.txt
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HEAD;f=rend-spec.txt