I would like to use the MT 3000 as a Tor gateway router.
Where and which DNS server do I need to set up in order to resolve the .onion address.
Thank you for your help.
Hi,
.onion addresses do not use traditional DNS for name resolution. As long as you access them using the Tor Browser, no additional configuration is required—the browser handles this automatically.
For more details, please refer to the official Tor documentation:
Thank you for your reply.
It works with the TOR browser...
What settings do I need to use if I don't use the TOR browser?
Which DNS server do I need to set on the MT3000?
I just want to understand it.
Thank you
Accessing .onion sites requires the Tor Browser or another Tor-enabled client.
Onion services do not publish public IP addresses. Instead, they advertise service descriptors to Tor’s distributed hash table (HSDir), which contains information about their introduction points. Clients retrieve this information through the Tor network and establish a connection via a rendezvous relay, without either side learning the other’s IP address.
This mechanism is handled entirely by Tor-compatible software without relying on DNS servers.
More detailed information is available in the official Tor documentation.
Standard browsers like Chrome do not support .onion addresses and will fail to resolve them. This behavior is intentional and aligns with RFC 7686, which designates .onion as a special-use domain that must not be resolved via the public DNS.
