• I cannot connect to telehack.com:6668 using Tails

    From =?UTF-8?B?U2NpZW50aWZpYyAoc2hlL2hlc@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 5 20:12:00 2022
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    Now it's a serious question, not some alt.atheism bullshit.

    Whenever I attempt to SSH to telehack.com port 6668 on Tails 4.26, it
    displays this error:

    nc: connection failed, SOCKSv5 error: General SOCKS server failure ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

    Is this a Tor fault?

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  • From Clint Kimble@21:1/5 to science@danwin1210.de on Sat Mar 5 09:47:11 2022
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    In article <stmlo5$pad$3@dont-email.me> =?UTF-8?B?U2NpZW50aWZpYyAoc2hlL2hlcikg4pqn?=
    <science@danwin1210.de> wrote:

    Now it's a serious question, not some alt.atheism bullshit.

    Whenever I attempt to SSH to telehack.com port 6668 on Tails 4.26, it displays this error:

    nc: connection failed, SOCKSv5 error: General SOCKS server failure ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

    Is this a Tor fault?

    The issue is that Tails' ssh config will try to use Tor to
    connect to any internet routable address, with exceptions set
    for private IP ranges.

    Since you're referencing the public address, ssh is trying to
    use Tor to connect but since the destination only accepts
    connections from other devices on the same network, it cannot
    establish a Tor connection.

    Tails' iptables configuration would also mean that even if ssh
    wasn't trying to proxy the connection over Tor, a connection to
    an internet address that wasn't made through Tor would be
    dropped.

    You could setup an onion to provide ssh access over Tor (even a single-hop-onion to improve latency, since the server doesn't
    need location anonymity) which would allow you to ssh to it from
    Tails, otherwise you'd need to be able to route to it from a
    private IP range, specifically one of: 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12
    or 192.168.0.0/16

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