diff --git a/bin/psyconf b/bin/psyconf
index 1084f0e..5c7b8bc 100755
--- a/bin/psyconf
+++ b/bin/psyconf
@@ -349,6 +349,7 @@ X
 
 	my $db = $c{_optional_level_debug} || '0';
 	my $psyced = "$execs/$driver -DDEBUG=$db";
+	my $torify = "";
 	my $debugfile;
 
 	if ( $c{_optional_use_file_debug} ) {
@@ -370,6 +371,13 @@ X
 		my $fqdn = "$c{_basic_host_name}.$c{_basic_host_domain}";
 		$psyced .= " --hostname $fqdn";
 		$hc = 0;	# no problem
+		say "Your hostname will be assigned as $fqdn.\n";
+		if ($c{_basic_host_domain} eq 'onion') {
+			$torify = "torsocks";
+			say "Enabling PSYC federation over Tor: Using "
+				. "torsocks wrapper around psyced.\n";
+			say "Warning: It will probably not function.\n"
+		}
 	}
 	## ldmud bug number two
 #WARNING: Because of some funny bug the driver will probably not bind properly
@@ -509,7 +517,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 # if your ldmud is too old, it may not understand --pidfile and --tls-*
-commandline="$psyced -s 0 -s v0 --swap-file $base/psyced.swap --erq $execs/erq --pidfile $sandbox/data/$driver.pid -m $sandbox -u $portUDP $ports"
+commandline="$torify $psyced -s 0 -s v0 --swap-file $base/psyced.swap --erq $execs/erq --pidfile $sandbox/data/$driver.pid -m $sandbox -u $portUDP $ports"
 
 # keep the pid of this wrapper process, too
 echo \$\$ >data/psyced.pid
@@ -669,7 +677,7 @@ X
 	$t = "$base/var/tor";
 	mkdir($t);
 	$t = "$base/etc/tor/torrc";
-	say "Generating control file $t ..\n";
+	say "Generating Tor configuration $t ..\n";
 	rename $t, "$t~";
 	open O, '>', $t or die "Cannot write to $t";
 
@@ -803,7 +811,8 @@ X
 	}
 #	close IG;
 
-	print "\nModel creation completed successfully.\n";
+	#print "\nModel creation completed successfully.\n";
+	print "\n";
 
 ## end of former archetype.pl
 
diff --git a/world/net/library.i b/world/net/library.i
index f5f6a5b..8ca706f 100644
--- a/world/net/library.i
+++ b/world/net/library.i
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ varargs int register_target(string uniform, vaobject handler, vaint shy) {
 		if (shy) return 2;
 	}
 	unless (handler) handler = previous_object();
-	P2(("register_target(%O) by %O\n", uniform, handler))
+	P2(("register_target(%O, %O) by %O\n", uniform, handler,
+	    previous_object()))
 	targets[uniform] = handler;
 #if 0 // this shouldn't be necessary TODO
 	uniform = lower_case(uniform);
diff --git a/world/net/psyc/library.i b/world/net/psyc/library.i
index 538ca4d..c0f1bd3 100644
--- a/world/net/psyc/library.i
+++ b/world/net/psyc/library.i
@@ -319,6 +319,12 @@ int psyc_sendmsg(mixed target, string mc, mixed data, mapping vars,
 		string psychopo;
 		string psycippo = "psyc://"+ $1 +"/";
 
+#if 0
+		if (trail(".onion", hopo)) {
+			psycippo = hopo;    // not a solution
+			raise_error("Unable to handle .onion correctly, snif.\n");
+		}
+#endif
 		// if ($3 && $3 != PSYC_SERVICE) {
 		if ($9) {
 			hopo += ":"+$9;
diff --git a/world/net/socks/protocol.c b/world/net/socks/protocol.c
index 422b712..ba0a963 100644
--- a/world/net/socks/protocol.c
+++ b/world/net/socks/protocol.c
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 // vim:syntax=lpc:ts=8
-/* implementation of the socks5 protocl
+
+/* implementation of the socks5 protocol
  * http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1928
+ *
+ * accepts SOCKS connections on a port and creates outgoing connection
+ * if requested to do so. when it enter STATE_READY it stops working.
+ * there is no interaction with the rest of the psyced code, so it's
+ * a bit odd to use psyced as a socks proxy. makes more sense if psyclpc
+ * was capable of connecting to hosts via SOCKS.
  */
 #include <net.h> 
 #include <input_to.h>
@@ -196,13 +203,14 @@ void read_callback(string data) {
 	return;
     } else {
 	buffer += data;
+	// switch this!
 	if (state == STATE_INITIAL) {
 	    parseNegotiation();
 	}
-	if (state == STATE_AUTH_USERPASS) {
+	else if (state == STATE_AUTH_USERPASS) {
 	    parseUserPass();
 	}
-	if (state == STATE_REQUEST) {
+	else if (state == STATE_REQUEST) {
 	    parseRequest();
 	}
     }