[tor-reports] Sherief's May 2015

[Sherief Alaa]

On 06/16/2015 07:54 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> On 16 June 2015 at 00:56, Sherief Alaa <sheriefalaa.w at gmail.com> wrote:
>> *** OS X doesn't respect /etc/hosts entries when it comes to .org
>> domains, also, ping works and commands such as curl do not. We've tried
>> clearing the OS' cached DNS, wiping all browsers history but it seems
>> (according to Mark Smith) that this is an "OS caching issue, or some
>> applications have their own DNS resolver that bypasses the OS libraries."
> 
> I haven't heard of problems with .org - but OSX 10.10 introduced a new
> DNS resolver that overrides resolving of .local - This is going to go
> away in 10.10.4
> 
> It might be worth trying on that and seeing if you observe the same behavior.
> 
> -tom
> 

Turns out this is not OS X exclusive. Try in Ubnutu or any Linux distro
and the results should be the same. I am moving this discussion to tor-dev.
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Sherief Alaa
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