Re: Tor-ramdisk 20100115 is out.

[arshad <arshad3m@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:50 -0500, basile wrote:
> arshad wrote:
> >
> > and can you please explain this below?
> >
> > quote:
> > The only known disadvantage is that it cannot host Tor hidden services
> > which would require other services (e.g. http), and their resources
> > (e.g. hard drive space), in addition to the Tor server itself. However,
> > as a middle or exit node, it is ideal.
> >
> >   
> To run a hidden service, you first need to run a service, like a web
> page.  To run a web page you need to have some web pages and an apache
> server.  You would further need php and mysql if you want a blog or
> wiki.  On top of that you run tor.  See
> http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-hidden-service.html.en
> 
> But all the ramdisk image has in it is a kernel, 3 binaries (tor, ntpd
> and busybox) and one ash script.  You can't run the service there.  I
> guess you could run it on another machine behind tor-ramdisk.
> 
> With tor-ramdisk I was just thinking of running a relay or exit node
> where you could just pull the plug and poof!  Nothing to see here ...
> 

thank you very much for the explanation :)

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