add --noonion option to filter out onion servers

closes #4531

electrum/commands.py

@@ -826,6 +826,7 @@ def add_network_options(parser):
     parser.add_argument("-1", "--oneserver", action="store_true", dest="oneserver", default=None, help="connect to one server only")
     parser.add_argument("-s", "--server", dest="server", default=None, help="set server host:port:protocol, where protocol is either t (tcp) or s (ssl)")
     parser.add_argument("-p", "--proxy", dest="proxy", default=None, help="set proxy [type:]host[:port], where type is socks4,socks5 or http")
+    parser.add_argument("--noonion", action="store_true", dest="noonion", default=None, help="do not try to connect to onion servers")
 
 def add_global_options(parser):
     group = parser.add_argument_group('global options')

electrum/network.py

@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ def filter_version(servers):
     return {k: v for k, v in servers.items() if is_recent(v.get('version'))}
 
 
+def filter_noonion(servers):
+    return {k: v for k, v in servers.items() if not k.endswith('.onion')}
+
+
 def filter_protocol(hostmap, protocol='s'):
     '''Filters the hostmap for those implementing protocol.
     The result is a list in serialized form.'''
@@ -409,6 +413,8 @@ class Network(util.DaemonThread):
                     continue
                 if host not in out:
                     out[host] = {protocol: port}
+        if self.config.get('noonion'):
+            out = filter_noonion(out)
         return out
 
     @with_interface_lock