Nice find!<br><br>Thanks for reporting it.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick 'Zaf' Clifford</b> <<a href="mailto:zaf@nrc.co.nz">zaf@nrc.co.nz</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hey ya,<br><br>Just noticed one small problem with Tor + Firefox + IPv6.<br>I'm aware that Tor doesn't yet support IPv6, but I found an interesting
<br>development with respect to a system that has IPv6 configured and working.<br><br>If you are using Tor (and have Firefox configured to use the HTTP<br>proxy), Firefox will not use the proxy for IPv6 traffic. This means that
<br>if you visit a website using Tor, and it has a img, href, etc to a ipv6<br>hostname, Firefox will happily connect with your native IPv6 connection<br>(bypassing Tor).<br><br>The work around for this is to disable Ipv6 (about:config,
<br>network.dns.disableIPv6 = true)<br><br>I guess this is a bug with Firefox rather than Tor, but it should be<br>noted in a wiki somewhere, as IPv6 is becoming more and more prevalent<br>and networks are becoming connected. It is of great concern for those in
<br>China, where IPv6 is being rolled out at a great rate of knots.<br><br>Nick<br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>