I went for a trip last week and this scene looks straight out of an anime.
Holesail version 1.7.0 is out with a brand new feature: Holesail Manager.
Run holesail in the background and persist connections on reboot.
It is as simple as doing holesail-manager create
Docs coming soon.
Please feel free to add it to holesail or copy and take over the project. I'm not going to have time to add features or maintain it
My goal was to build a proof of concept that would allow any app to connect to hyper nodes without needing to be written in NodeJS or integrating hyperdht
Also there might be a way to roll this into a mobile app like Orbot. since I'm pretty sure Orbot is doing the same thing on mobile
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev SOCKS5 is what every app (browser, bitcoin wallet, etc...) use to interface with Tor. they don't directly talk to the Tor network but instead talk through a proxy that in turn talks to Tor
This SOCKS5 proxy allows any app that supports routing traffic through proxies to connect to .hyper domains, which are just the pubkey key of any hyper node
Thanks, I was also thinking something like Orbot for mobile devices. This is a solid suggestion and will improve holesail a lot.
Okay lets see if this works. I setup a server and made it available on hypercore using #holesail
Its connection string is 066ed92add0f1b000409816229bfcb6bcf9bdf3ec0d73ff010a61d688fe4e830
For anyone who has nodejs installed, There are two things I want you to test
First connecting to the node using holesail cli. You can do this by running the `npx holesail 066ed92add0f1b000409816229bfcb6bcf9bdf3ec0d73ff010a61d688fe4e830` command then opening http://127.0.0.1:8989/
If it worked you should see the nginx welcome page 🎉
Next I want to test using the SOCKS5 proxy I built
To start the proxy you can run `npx hyper-socks5-proxy start` then you will have to follow the instructions in this note to configure FireFox to use that proxy
Once you have firefox setup you should be able to go to this address http://hypr1qehdj2kapudsqpqfs93zn07td08ehhe7crtnluqs5cwk3rlyaqcqdhsfwd.hyper/ and see the nginx welcome page 🎉
Let me know if you were able to connect, and if not what error you got
nostr:npub1h5t3asu90f2x48rxtcqkjvwhza7m6kngs7vjyanx8xqyswc6es2s4645z5 nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev and anyone else who is interested
Works for me, pretty sick !!
I am also using Primal Web; the bug has not stopped my account. Their mobile client is good too, along with Amethyst
I find Nostrudel ninja UI a bit hard to digest, let me check rabbit
What Nostr client is everyone using here? Specifically on the web / Mac.
Basically, it starts a SOCKS5 proxy in the background that will automatically handle connecting with holesail/hyperdht connections, you wont have to connect to a key every time in terminal, the proxy will automatically do it on the go for any app for browser.
For example, doing
It is pretty sick, nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr I see it is MIT, I might add it to holesail someday
use ublock?
ELI5?
Well jokes on me because this code actually works, I just never finished it enough to fully test it
So without further ado I present to you Hyper SOCKS5 Proxy
This is a SOCKS v5 proxy server that can automatically connect to HyperDHT node and Holesail servers. This is cool because it lets any application that already supports SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies ( mainly web browsers ) to connect to hyper nodes
Let me show you can example
First we have to startup a http server and use holesail to make it available on hyper
Next, on a different machine we can connect to it using hyper-socks5-proxy and configure FireFox to use the proxy
https://v.nostr.build/3bcbJMX7XbaWMdfA.mp4
NOTE: besides this example ( tested on my LAN ) I have not tested anything else. but in theory it should be possible to host relays over hyperdht
The reason I had to convert the hex connection string ( hyperdht pubkey ) into a bech32 address was because the maximum length for a domain name is 63 characters. and the connection string is 64...
But encoding it to bech32 with a 4 character prefix makes it only 58. Its identical to how nostr npubs are encoded
Anyways here are the links to the code if you want to play around with it
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-address ( https://hzrd149.github.io/hyper-address/ )
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-socks5-proxy
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-http-proxy
This is also available on my custom umbrel app store. If for some crazy reason you want to run my untested code on your lightning node ( please don't )
https://github.com/hzrd149/umbrel-community-app-store
#pear #hyperdht #holesail #proxy #socks5
Also since this is custom DNS resolution I dont think we need to convert to bech32 🤔
Perhaps you are too smart to understand, but I will try:
Unlike traditional and common holepunching methods, there is no requirement of a third party STUN server in Kademliya.
The peers themselves act as a stun themselves(kind of) and help in holepunching.
Well jokes on me because this code actually works, I just never finished it enough to fully test it
So without further ado I present to you Hyper SOCKS5 Proxy
This is a SOCKS v5 proxy server that can automatically connect to HyperDHT node and Holesail servers. This is cool because it lets any application that already supports SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies ( mainly web browsers ) to connect to hyper nodes
Let me show you can example
First we have to startup a http server and use holesail to make it available on hyper
Next, on a different machine we can connect to it using hyper-socks5-proxy and configure FireFox to use the proxy
https://v.nostr.build/3bcbJMX7XbaWMdfA.mp4
NOTE: besides this example ( tested on my LAN ) I have not tested anything else. but in theory it should be possible to host relays over hyperdht
The reason I had to convert the hex connection string ( hyperdht pubkey ) into a bech32 address was because the maximum length for a domain name is 63 characters. and the connection string is 64...
But encoding it to bech32 with a 4 character prefix makes it only 58. Its identical to how nostr npubs are encoded
Anyways here are the links to the code if you want to play around with it
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-address ( https://hzrd149.github.io/hyper-address/ )
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-socks5-proxy
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-http-proxy
This is also available on my custom umbrel app store. If for some crazy reason you want to run my untested code on your lightning node ( please don't )
https://github.com/hzrd149/umbrel-community-app-store
#pear #hyperdht #holesail #proxy #socks5
Check this out, guys, It's the coolest thing by far I have seen build-on holesail.
nostr:note10em22c0rr0cjwd5ndy7rl76u8m2z6my2t7y0qpyfhvv5crg4g9nsqhkx03
It is pure P2P, the nodes do not help in holepunching but to discover first few peers, a node is just a known peer. Anyone can become a node.
You need to look into Kademliya algorithem to understand how it all works.
Check out Kademliya algorithem, it is truly peer to peer, there are no central nodes.
nostr:npub1h5t3asu90f2x48rxtcqkjvwhza7m6kngs7vjyanx8xqyswc6es2s4645z5 nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev you guys have used hyperdht the most. If you don't mind could you test this an tell me if it works on your computer. I don't want this to be a case of "well it works on my machine" 😀
It works flawlessly , let's gooo ⛵️
Well jokes on me because this code actually works, I just never finished it enough to fully test it
So without further ado I present to you Hyper SOCKS5 Proxy
This is a SOCKS v5 proxy server that can automatically connect to HyperDHT node and Holesail servers. This is cool because it lets any application that already supports SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies ( mainly web browsers ) to connect to hyper nodes
Let me show you can example
First we have to startup a http server and use holesail to make it available on hyper
Next, on a different machine we can connect to it using hyper-socks5-proxy and configure FireFox to use the proxy
https://v.nostr.build/3bcbJMX7XbaWMdfA.mp4
NOTE: besides this example ( tested on my LAN ) I have not tested anything else. but in theory it should be possible to host relays over hyperdht
The reason I had to convert the hex connection string ( hyperdht pubkey ) into a bech32 address was because the maximum length for a domain name is 63 characters. and the connection string is 64...
But encoding it to bech32 with a 4 character prefix makes it only 58. Its identical to how nostr npubs are encoded
Anyways here are the links to the code if you want to play around with it
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-address ( https://hzrd149.github.io/hyper-address/ )
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-socks5-proxy
https://github.com/hzrd149/hyper-http-proxy
This is also available on my custom umbrel app store. If for some crazy reason you want to run my untested code on your lightning node ( please don't )
https://github.com/hzrd149/umbrel-community-app-store
#pear #hyperdht #holesail #proxy #socks5
Freaking heck I just tested it, and it works. This is so cool.
In the HTTP spec there is support for proxy requests using the CONNECT method
It allows a client to ask the proxy server to open a connection to a remote machine and forward traffic
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Proxy_servers_and_tunneling#http_tunneling
Tor uses something very similar but its a more complicated proxy protocol called SOCKS5
Most apps, browsers and operating systems have support for routing all thier traffic through HTTP or SOCKS5 proxies
This is how tor integrates with so many apps, they aren't specifically integrating with tor. But instead they support routing their traffic through proxies
The local tor proxy ( localhost:9090 ) takes advantage of this and is setup to route all traffic through tor nodes for privacy.
But because its handing all the traffic its also able to let apps connect to .onion domains
When it detects that an app is trying to connect to an .onion domain, instead of routing the traffic out to the clearnet it can make a connection to another tor node
I'm suggesting building something similar for hyperdht
The hyper proxy would watch an apps traffic, then when it detected the app was trying to connect to a .hyper domain, it would make the connection to the remote hyper node and forward the traffic to it
If this worked it would allow users to use any web browser they like ( with a little configuration ) and connect to
Ohhh damn, now I get it lol. That would is pretty amazing. Kind of like a bridge between the browser and holesail
