I knew Tor Project has been shifting away from "hidden services" for a while but I missed the email where teor clarified things for blog posts and such in late April [0]. Also, I wanted to avoid using "onion resolver" as it would be a worse misnomer than "hidden resolver."
Re. OnionBalance: we're working on a few ideas for this, but nothing conclusive yet.
0. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-April/01...
I read the article after your correction, and on reading the `What are Tor onion services?` section, I thought “How nice, they’re using the new terminology to go with the new v3 service address”.
But then, just below, I saw the https://blog.cloudflare.com/content/images/2018/05/image_3.p... diagram still mention “hidden service” and thought “an old image slipped thru, tho” :)
Also, wouldn’t a “1111dns4tor” prefix look better? :)
Yes, it would but the .onion addresses use base32 and '1' isn't in the alphabet used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32
I see. Oh well, at least Google and Quad9 can’t, either (base32 digits stop at ‘7’).
0 - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-April/01...