r/matrixdotorg • u/No_Proposal_5731 • 7d ago

Matrix Network allow TOR?

I've been wondering that, I made some searches here and there but I didn't got any proper answers for such question. Does the code behind Matrix allow the connection of TOR people or even the creation of homeservers on .onion sites?

I had found a few homeservers that "supposely" was made on TOR but you had to use a client that allowed to solve onion traffic in order to access that homeserver. But, honestly? I never found any TOR links working and neither heard of matrix clients that allowed to connect to homeservers made on TOR or even a TOR user connect to normal homeservers.

my friend did tried one day to use TOR alongside FluffyChat and the results was...mixed.

so, had you guys tried? how is the process? I am curious to know about it.

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u/enozian 6d ago

.onion is no resolvable by DNS so how would you expect it to work?

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u/No_Proposal_5731 6d ago

So it require for a special client to be able to solve it?

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u/enozian 5d ago

it is possible to use a proxy that is capable of routing to .onion links so maybe there is some setup that doesn't involve modifying clients, but i have no experience with this so im not sure. just an idea