It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it. Well, actually, that’s not quite true. I’ve been mirroring this blog as an onion site since 2016, so I figured it was time to contribute a little time, effort, and money towards the infrastructure of the Tor network. Besides, running Tor relays has always been on my bucket list, and I am getting old. No more time to waste ;)

My plan was to have a Zimbra e-mail server running in VirtualBox using the internal networking model with a local domain. To make this work, I have a virtual pfSense box running on the same internal network to provide “outside” access. Additionally, pfSense is also running a DNS resolver so I figured it would be a trivial matter to add the local records I needed.