Thank you. Why do some relays need to be public Internet hosts (if I understood correctly what I saw) instead of using all Tor hosts as relays? Sorry if the answer is somehow implicit in what you already posted.
Thanks for all your help and I understand if I've exhausted the efforts of free HN technical help!
I read the link and while I learned more about Tor, the article seems to describe how to secure Tor traffic that is forwarded to regular Internet hosts, for example if someone using a Tor client visited ycombinator.com. My question is, if you use a Tor client to visit twitterhpgjerufcvrmzerg2novpipy42rk3anvb5b7np4zggm4rwaqd.onion, why is part of the route through regular Internet hosts (afaict) and what are the implications of that? The article shows what I am describing in this screenshot; the blacked out parts next to "Portugal", "Germany", and "United States" are IP addresses:
