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How do I ssh to a hidden service with torsocks? Manual for torsocks says that ssh should work just fine yet it doesn't. It fails with the following:

$ torsocks ssh [email protected]
get_sock_port: getnameinfo NI_NUMERICSERV failed: ai_family not supported

Complete debugging log here.

Is it even remotely possible to use torsocks in this case?

Sure, if I add an explicit proxy definition to the .ssh/config, ssh to this host works just fine, but I'd prefer to use torsocks because I not always can or want to modify .ssh/config like follows.

Host *.onion
    ProxyCommand /bin/nc.openbsd -xlocalhost:9050 -X5 %h %p

But that's not what I want.

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    I tried your command and it works with torsocks 2.1.0 perfectly fine. Thatswhy I'll close the question.
    – Jens Kubieziel ♦
    Mar 15, 2016 at 18:46
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    "WARNING torsocks[17541]: [connect] Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCP DNS query to a local DNS server. Rejecting it for safety reasons." this is happening because you've probably still got ssh configured to use nc to proxy, causing a conflict. do you have any other options set, like are you trying to forward ports or X11?
    – cacahuatl
    Jun 16, 2016 at 2:00
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    sure the debug log it isn't, but that specific error is that it's trying to connect to a localhost address and being denied.
    – cacahuatl
    Jun 16, 2016 at 3:24
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    @canonizingironize denied by what? apparently it's just works now... With or without nc.
    – sanmai
    Jun 16, 2016 at 3:36
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    By torsocks, it hooks certain libc calls and blocks them on the basis that they can't be safely performed without possibly leaking.
    – cacahuatl
    Jun 16, 2016 at 19:06

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