[tor-bugs] #5751 [Company]: Standardize SOCKS extensions to support proxied DNS queries

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#5751: Standardize SOCKS extensions to support proxied DNS queries
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 Reporter:  rransom  |          Owner:  phobos
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Comment(by nickm):

 Interesting idea.  What working group has SOCKS under its purview?

 One other possibility is that this will be attacked, on the theory that
 "that's not what SOCKS is for".  So we'll need to make the argument that
 proxying a DNS request is something that SOCKS ought to be handling.

 You're right about how we'll get opposed because our current thing doesn't
 support all of DNS. One challenge there is that if we support all of DNS,
 we might as well just open a DNS port.  If we do all of DNS over socks,
 applications would need to implement their own DNS resolvers, and DNS is
 an annoyingly easy format to get wrong.

 So IMO we'll need to make a case that something less than full DNS is
 useful and necessary here.

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