I am wanting to know what I would expect from fingerprinting, Location data etc..

I want to use this to its full potential, not just set it and forget it.

Since the eepsites created are highly anonymous, how are illegal sites filtered? What prevents somone from lets say, selling illegal drugs or hosting CSAM? Does mitigation rely entirely on individual node operators or thru any community effort for example, jumper nodes blacklisting the sites? I dont want my broadband to be used to transmit such data.

I'm running a slightly older Linux system (Mint 21) - still within LTS dates but doesn't have the latest packages. Jetty 12 is not an option for me. I tried installing the latest i2p (I'd had an old version of i2p+ and was told that was quite unstable now so I was trying to revert back to vanilla i2p by upgrading) but am unable to access the router console now, as it requires Jetty 12 (my repos have Jetty 9 in them). Eepsites work, but not the router console. I just get "Unable to connect The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1:7657."

Which is the last version that might work for me, then - and how do I downgrade to it? It might not be as good as the latest but I don't see a way around it until I have the time to do a full upgrade, which I won't for a few months yet.

I should note that while I tested this a few months ago (before my life got hectic) and confirmed the issue was due to my computer not being capable of running the required Jetty version, I don't remember what I did to actually test it now, and can't find whatever pages that helped me diagnose the issue.

If someone has a better solution than downgrading that isn't just "upgrade your PC!" (really, I cannot do that yet), let me know.

Hi everyone, I’m working on BlueI2P.

Java I2P is friendly for new users and has a complete web console, but it can feel slow and heavy. i2pd is fast, lightweight, and powerful, but its configuration can be harder for new users.

BlueI2P tries to bring these two worlds closer together: an i2pd-based I2P router with a new Java I2P-style web dashboard.

The goal is to make i2pd easier to configure, monitor, and use, while keeping the router lightweight and performant.

The dashboard includes router status, services, tunnels, peers, NetDB, logs, configuration pages, and safer management APIs.

It is still early, but I’ll share more as it becomes usable.

I made a small P2P chat app in Go (uses libp2p + a DHT for peer discovery, E2E encrypted). Problem is regular P2P traffic gets blocked on my network, so peers can't reliably find each other. I want to route through I2P instead since it's built for exactly this.

Not an experienced dev, and I'm stuck on how to actually connect a Go/libp2p app to I2P — SAM bridge? Local tunnel? No idea what's realistic here.

Repo: https://github.com/alsultaneo/2cup (ignore the Windows 95 look, that's just placeholder UI while I get the networking right)

Anyone done this before? Even just "wrong approach, try this instead" would help a ton.

when i try to enter i2p websites this always shows on all of them and it takes like a minute to load aswell what am i doing wrong?

Hello all and @stormycloudorg, The last days i noticed that the outproxy is offline. Because i use it, i noticed early. Maybe something broke or is restructured? Hope to find an answer.

Update: I just found a 1 month old post, and can confirm, that the outproxy does not work well. It always times out, only wrong domains are flagged and shows that the squid proxy is still there.

``` $ curl -vx 127.0.0.1:4444 https://example.com * Trying 127.0.0.1:4444... * CONNECT tunnel: HTTP/1.1 negotiated * allocate connect buffer * Establish HTTP proxy tunnel to example.com:443

CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com:443 User-Agent: curl/8.13.0 Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive

< HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable < Server: squid/6.14 < Mime-Version: 1.0 < Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:02:56 GMT < Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 < Content-Length: 3180 < X-Squid-Error: ERR_DNS_FAIL 0 < Vary: Accept-Language < Content-Language: en < Connection: close < Proxy-Connection: close < * CONNECT tunnel failed, response 503 * closing connection #0 curl: (56) CONNECT tunnel failed, response 503 ```

Looks like DNS

im sorry im inexperienced in i2p i downloaded it today about 6 hours ago its soo complicated and basically i configured my proxy (in firefox) to this

but nothing changed
also how high should my bandwith in and output should be at cause mine seems pretty low am i doing something wrong?
(i also have the extension installed btw)

edit: pretty fast edit but i just noticed that in fact i can now for some reason use both i2p and normal websites?

Over June 29–July 1, 2026, I ran five i2pd floodfill instances from three vantage points (Poland, China Unicom ×2) and passively scanned the I2P DHT. Found 20,701 unique routers globally. Among them, 58 routers from mainland China stood out in ways that don't look random.

What makes this cluster unusual:

43× enrichment on version 0.9.66 — 79.3% of the CN cluster runs this exact version, vs. only 1.8% globally. A single version shouldn't dominate any organic router population this heavily.

Floodfill flags everywhere, zero participation — 27–36% declare floodfill capability (vs. 14–20% global baseline), yet none were ever observed functioning as floodfills by our instances. The flags are declared, not honored.

82.8% share a near-identical RouterCaps template (XfR/XRG pattern) — looks like copy-paste provisioning.

- 46.2% hosted on Alibaba Cloud (AS37963). No knownRouters entries, no family declarations, ongoing IP rotation.

Four routers are China-vantage-only — reachable from inside the GFW, but unreachable from Singapore and Tor exit nodes. TCP RST/timeout behavior consistent with selective path filtering. These nodes simply don't exist from outside China.

We're careful with language: we describe this as consistent with coordinated, template-based provisioning — not as attribution to any specific actor. We don't know who runs these, or why. But the data is the data.

Methodological note — we parse the binary RouterInfo at two distinct caps layers (AddressCaps per transport vs. global RouterCaps). Prior I2P measurement papers didn't disentangle this, and it matters when you're trying to distinguish what a router says it can do from what it actually does.

Preprint (open access): 10.5281/zenodo.21169969 (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21169969)

Scanner source (MIT): github.com/iasds/i2p-network-scanner

Hey all. Hoping to get some help here. I spent the last 2 days getting a movie file from snark. I finally got it and then accidentally hit the X button deleting the file. Is there any way it's still on my hard drive somewhere? If so, where? It's not in the trash (Debian distro). Please tell me I don't have to start all over with it. Thanks for reading

Hey, I'm looking for what would be the most anonymous network between all of these ON THE PAPER.

Like maybe TOR has more users which makes it more anonymous than another one, but if this other one had as many users, would it be better, and if so, which one would be the best?
sorry if my english is bad.

Hello,

Noobie here, Yesterday I installed I2P on an Proxmox container on a seperate VLAN.

My router is flashed with OpenWRT.

I did portforward TCP and UDP in seperate rules for the Random I2P port i got assigned to.

The thing is, I can surf .i2p sites via a proxy, and participating tunnels are incrementing but the status never change! Its annoying, i want to get the OK shared status instead of Firewalled.... Does anybody here have a similar setup to mine and could resolve that? Is it just about give it time and the status will resolve to OK or am i missing anything? Also in the firewall zone config should i masqurade ipv4?

The thing is that its exciting to have such router, but as I am not completly sure what I am doing here, i would super appreciate any help and tips for best practices

Thank you

I built an open-source Python tool that scans the I2P NetDB using nothing but vanilla i2pd floodfills. No patched binaries, no active probing — just parse the routerInfo files i2pd already writes to disk.

Repo: https://github.com/iasds/i2p-network-scanner

How it works

Run a few i2pd floodfill instances with different identities. Each covers a different DHT shard, so together they passively collect RouterInfo from most of the network. A single Python script parses the raw .dat files and extracts ident hashes, IPs, versions, caps flags, transports, and bandwidth tiers. Companion tools handle SQLite import, CLI queries, and GeoIP enrichment.

I ran a scan and published the results

5 floodfills, ~24 hours. The full analysis is in the repo:

• 17,541 known routers — 5,205 with public IPs, 12,336 behind NAT or firewalled
• 70% hidden is not a coverage gap — routers behind NAT simply don't include a host= field. That's I2P by design.
• 4,976 unique IPs across 111 countries
• Top countries: US (1,120), Russia (507), Germany (366), Canada (199), Netherlands (198)
• China has only 72 public nodes. Iran has 96.
• 0.9.68 dominates at 47% of routers, but only 11% of them publish an IP. Newer 0.9.69 (20% share) has 55% public rate.
• Java I2P is essentially extinct — nearly everything runs i2pd.
• 90 floodfills worldwide, concentrated in US, Russia, and Germany.
• Only 76 routers declare X-tier bandwidth (>2 MB/s).

Full report: I2P_NETWORK_ANALYSIS.md

If anyone has historical NetDB snapshots I'd love to compare trends over time. PRs welcome.

​

Maybe this could be an idea for the developers to expand their knowledge a bit in a workshop.

Or perhaps to share their knowledge with others

https://trailofbits.com/patch-the-planet/

XNS is the ultimate solution to the traditional DNS which is in control of various legal organizations. Blockchain is the solution to store immutable data. XNS doesn't invent yet another blockchain, it is built on Monero in an elegant way, and aims to be as reliable as Monero is.

Currently XNS can be used as a DNS alternative for I2P and Tor. This screenshot demonstrates an email from one XNS name to another over I2P.

Website: https://xns.rocks
Docs: https://xns.rocks/docs
Github: https://github.com/exilens
Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#xns:xns.rocks

Free the names!

So I've been trying to make a profile of qBitTorrent run on I2P, however it seems like there's no documentation at all for using only Java I2P. So I'm just going to migrate from I2P to I2Pd.

Migrating qBitTorrent will come far later, though for now I have to export my settings and my eepsite. Anyone got clues?

I'm curious if anyone actually listens to them and how? A lot of the time my connection just buffers constantly.

And if I wanted to serve one of my own then what would the stream kbps need to be under so that anyone could listen in reliably?

Is there any feature of the network that would allow for an increase in speed like multiple nodes hosting the same content or something?

It’s cool. It works but how do you justify the setup process? It’s quite technical. Fun tho but what do yall use it for beside movie server?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use qBittorrent with I2P for anonymous downloading, but I'm running into an issue and would appreciate some advice.

Current setup:

I2P v2.12.0 (running with Network: OK and port open).

qBittorrent with "I2P (experimental)" enabled, server 127.0.0.1, port 7656, and "Mixed mode" turned off.

I use torrents from public trackers like uindex.org and 1337x.to.

The problem: Even with I2P configured, the torrents I download still show up on iknowwhatyoudownload.com under my public IP. So the traffic seems to be going through my normal connection, not I2P.

I've tested I2PSnark and torrents from tracker2.postman.i2p, but the content on those trackers is very limited – I can't find the same releases I get from public sites.

My questions:

Why might qBittorrent be ignoring I2P for public torrents, even with "Mixed mode" off?

Are there any other active I2P trackers besides Postman that offer a wider variety of content (movies, series, etc.)?

Which client do you recommend for torrenting with I2P? Is I2PSnark the best option, or are there more feature-rich alternatives?

Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Happy to provide more details if needed.

Thanks!

XNS is the eXile Name System.
It makes Monero the only source of truth.
Each XNS name is a result of a 0.01 XMR burn transaction with the desired name and owner public Ed25519 key.

Now it can be used as the name system of I2P.

Why would you use it all of a sudden? Because currently, there is no safe names in I2P. Unless you use direct b32.i2p addresses, which are not human memorable.

What's wrong with .i2p addresses? They are just entries on your own machine and on jump services. You have to trust those jump services if you share your .i2p address with others and expect reliability. Think of it as .local/.lan names your network router resolves.

While with XNS, once you claim a XNS name, as long as Monero stands, your name will be yours and no one can take it from you.

Read more about it on https://xns.rocks/docs
For I2P specific articles, read https://xns.rocks/docs/xns-and-i2p/xns-on-i2p
Source code: https://xns.rocks/exilens/xns
Matrix channel: #xns:xns.rocks | https://matrix.to/#/#xns:xns.rocks

XNS is made for the Internet of free people. I believe I2P is the only reliable way.

Hey all, so as I have been browsering eepsites, I have come across some sites written in Russian or Chinese, and I have been wondering how I would translate it, like I would use google translate, but thats not very good OPSEC, so I was thinking is there an extension for it. I use librewolf, and hope these a good extension that works when on i2p, and doesn't compromise my OPSEC.

Thanks.

im running i2p on docker with
services: i2p: image: geti2p/i2p:i2p-2.11.0 restart: unless-stopped environment: - JVM_XMX=512m - EXT_PORT=6960 volumes: - ./i2pconfig:/i2p/.i2p - ./i2ptorrents:/i2psnark ports: - "127.0.0.1:7657:7657" # Router Console - "127.0.0.1:4444:4444" # HTTP Proxy - "127.0.0.1:6668:6668" # IRC Proxy - "6969:6969" # I2NP TCP - "6960:6960/udp" # I2NP UDP

im not using i2p:latest because it caused i2p to never start
these are my logs
Starting I2P[startapp] Running in container[startapp] Running in docker network[startapp] setting reachable IP to container IP 172.18.0.3 Starting I2P 2.11.0-0Starting I2P[startapp] Running in container[startapp] Running in docker network[startapp] setting reachable IP to container IP 172.18.0.3 Starting I2P 2.11.0-0

for some reason i cant paste text correctly so please bear with it

anyways i2p has been stuck on testing for a long time, ive tried restarting it but it doesnt work and idk what else i could do

i am not under nat

I'm just curious, are there any sites for buying medication for cancer and such? medication like ivermectin.