Luckily, Prox圜hains is configured to work with Tor out of the box! You may already have Prox圜hains installed. Prox圜hains allows you to force an application to use a SOCKS proxy. ZNC doesn't have the option to use SOCKS proxies, that's where Prox圜hains comes in. Tor ships with a SOCKS proxy which is used to tunnel traffic through the Tor network. It's your choice.įor Ubuntu-based distros, please refer to the Ubuntu section in the installation guide to install ZNC.Īfter you have compiled and/or installed znc, you need to configure znc before continuing by running:Īt the end of the makeconf screen when it asks if you would like to launch ZNC, select 'no.' For novices, the PPA should serve to be easier to maintain, but comes with a potential lapse of updates. This page will have the most up to date version listed quicker than the PPA listed below.

The installation page gives you an easy walkthrough on compiling and install ZNC for your distribution of choice. onion address with another IRC server, or change the port.įollow the instructions at the tor installation guide.

Socat TCP4-LISTEN:4321,fork SOCKS4A::ajnvpgl6prmkb7yktvue6im5wiedlz2w32uhcwaamdiecdrfpwwgnlqd.onion:6697,socksport=8080 Socat TCP4-LISTEN:4321,fork SOCKS4A:localhost:ajnvpgl6prmkb7yktvue6im5wiedlz2w32uhcwaamdiecdrfpwwgnlqd.onion:6697,socksport=9050Īssume you just want to use :8080 as your SOCKS proxy, then the command would be: There is an open issue at GitHub on supporting SOCKS proxies directly and there user ErebusBat gives alternative method quoted below.įYI this can be easily accomplished using socat by running the following command on the ZNC server, then using 127.0.0.1:4321 as the server in ZNC. This has been copied from Alternative method

4.1 The recommended way, proxychains v4.

Mirc tor proxy