Re: DNS Forwarding + Wireless Client + Tor [week two]

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi Rod,

On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 01:46 -0500, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> I've blocked off some time Tuesday afternoon (GMT-6) as "IPFire Work."
> What can I do? I'll need to build out a test router, but that should not
> take too long.

If you would also look over the Tor, wireless client and DNS forwarding
pages for spelling and grammar that would be great.

If you have even more time, it would be great if you could set up those
things with help of the instructions given on the wiki pages. If there
is something missing, please add that information.

> Looked at your document. It looks pretty good.
> 
> In the line "Be aware, that this is not a HTTP proxy" it should be "Be
> aware, that this is not an HTTP proxy" (substitute An for A) to be
> grammatically correct. I doubt anyone would notice, however, and the
> statement is perfectly readable as is.

Right. You may edit those things right away :)

> Question though. You state that this is "not a HTTP proxy", but if I
> understood correctly, it is an IP proxy, so it will work over any
> protocol using IP (such as HTTP, HTTPS?). I think the statement needs a
> little clarification as to what the impact is.

Good that you point out these things, too!

The protocol is SOCKS, which has been used before NAT was invented. It
is a simple protocol, where you connect to the SOCKS proxy and tell that
proxy where to connect for you. In a very simplified way, you can think
of it like HTTP CONNECT.

If you type the Tor proxy into your browser settings it's just important
to type it into the SOCKS proxy setting and not as an HTTP proxy. Tor
will also warn if you want to use it as a HTTP proxy.

I hope this clears it up a little bit. Feel free to add this to the
wiki.

> Anyway, I know very little about Tor, but like I said, just tell me what
> to do and, unless something else breaks, I'll spend time on it Tuesday.
> Hope that is soon enough. I MAY also have some additional time the rest
> of the week; depends on when the new hardware arrives.

Setting up Tor should be very easy and you don't need to know very much
about it. I wouldn't write too much about what Tor is and stuff, because
that is covered elsewhere and possibly much better than we could do it.

But we should provide at least a short impression what Tor is for, so
that the users can figure out if they should look into it or if it is
just not interesting for them.

-Michael

> 
> Rod
> 
> On 08/17/2013 06:00 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I know that you are working very much and I am sure the other do as
> > well. That has to be priority, for sure.
> > 
> > I would be very happy if you could just go through the texts and check
> > for bad grammar and such. It should not be too terrible.
> > 
> > -Michael
> > 
> > On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 11:57 +0100, Aaron Philpott wrote:
> >> Hey Michael 
> >>
> >> That's a shame. I'd put my hand up but I'm busy with work at the
> >> moment (working 50 hours this week) and then the same next week. 
> >>
> >> I also have to admit I'm not very familiar with Tor having never used
> >> it but I'm happy to help if you need me. 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Aaron 
> >>
> >> On 17 Aug 2013 11:41, "Michael Tremer" <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>         Hey,
> >>         
> >>         almost one week has passed since we started working on these
> >>         three
> >>         topics. It's a bit sad, that so few participated and worked on
> >>         something
> >>         else instead.
> >>         
> >>         So I think that is nothing to do on the DNS Forwarding and
> >>         Wireless
> >>         Client pages and that we can pass that over to the
> >>         translators.
> >>         
> >>         Since, we want to release Tor very soon, we need to do the
> >>         same with the
> >>         Tor documentation as well. One paragraph has not been written
> >>         and if
> >>         there is no interest in doing that, I will just remove that
> >>         and people
> >>         need to find the information somewhere else.
> >>         
> >>         This is:
> >>         http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/addons/tor/client#use_the_tor_proxy_with_your_web_browser
> >>         
> >>         If somebody wants to work on that, please raise your hand.
> >>         Otherwise,
> >>         this will just be removed.
> >>         
> >>         Have a nice weekend!
> >>         
> >>         -Michael
> >>         
> >>         On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 19:28 +0200, Michael Tremer wrote:
> >>         > Hello,
> >>         >
> >>         > On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 19:16 +0200, SCHUH Karl, SCHUH-TV
> >>         wrote:
> >>         > > Hi Michael,
> >>         > > maybe it would be more important if start the translation
> >>         process. If someone wanted to start a translation, he could
> >>         look up the english version, if it were stable or if it was
> >>         worked upon. But there can be other rules to avoid a
> >>         translation of a page, which is to be changed (as it happened
> >>         to me with the NDS-forward-page). :-)
> >>         >
> >>         > I stated this several times on here, but here it is again:
> >>         Writing
> >>         > documentation does not care about translation. There is
> >>         nobody who can
> >>         > keep track of all languages.
> >>         >
> >>         > As long as a page is written, reviewed and has not been
> >>         approved to be
> >>         > finished, starting a translation is non-sense and must never
> >>         be done.
> >>         >
> >>         > -Michael
> >>         >
> >>         > >
> >>         > > Best regards,
> >>         > > Karl
> >>         > >
> >>         > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> >>         > > > Well, I didn't feel that it made much sense, because if
> >>         someone is
> >>         > > > actually working on a page, the wiki software will lock
> >>         it, so that
> >>         > > > there won't be any conflicts.
> >>         > > > Otherwise, I didn't think that the team is big enough to
> >>         divide it
> >>         > > > into
> >>         > > > several groups who each work on a page.
> >>         > > >
> >>         > > > Why do you think do we need this?
> >>         > > >
> >>         > > > -Michael
> >>         > >
> >>         >
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