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<div>know what you mean. till I hear otherwise I am going to go with this as my solution to this problem. If anyone see's a problem that I missed please speak up.</div>
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<div>hummm. might even be a good Idea to offer this in the Wiki. (read I am really lazy and probably couldn't write a good Read-Me if I tried...) <br> </div>
<div>I wonder to if this is a IE fix or if firefox and other browsers check the hosts file as well. </div><span class="sg">
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<div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">OpenMacNews</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:OpenMacNews@speakeasy.net" target="_blank">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">hi matt,<br><br>> I am rather fuzzy on the DNS-leak problem, but I don't feel that this will<br>> aggravate it. As I understand the Hosts file process, the browser checks this
<br>> file before it makes any requests for a webpage. It shouldn't send any<br>> packets or process any addresses before it checks this file for any<br>> redirections you have entered into it.<br><br>in general, true. but on OSX, possibly (must check) complicated by lookupd
<br>priorities ... arrrrgh. makes my head hurt!<br><br>> Seems to me that if you change your local DNS servers records then the local<br>> computer will have to send a message to the DNS server asking it for the page
<br>> just like it would any other web page. I personally can't ring in on the<br>> security of this, but it seems like this would be less secure.<br><br>fair point. though my internal DNS is accessible only to/from the internal
<br>LAN. the question is more ... will 'something' identifiable 'leak' into the<br>Tor-bound stream. i simply dunno.<br><br>> as to the squid/privoxy/tor configs, It would seem to be secure. But to be<br>> honest, I wouldn't know. I leave it to the experts to change those programs
<br>> as I have only been using tor for a short time.<br><br>likewise. a week ago i was a squid-less, privoxy-less & tor-less 'virgin'<br>myself :-D<br><br>cheers,<br><br>richard<br><br><br><br></blockquote></span>
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