google search redirected to language/country of Tor exit node

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Tue Aug 30 17:23:30 UTC 2005


hi matt,

> As a Solution to this. Windows users might consider changing their hosts file
> to redirect www.google.pl or any other google's to one of google's main IP
> addresses.
>
> more about hosts files can be found @
> http://accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html
>
> but basically it is a local file that your computer checks before It goes out
> to get a website. A sample ping showed the IP of (64.233.161.147) for
> www.google.com
>
> I think that I will do this my self later on when I am not @ work; so when I
> am done I will repost with what the entries should look like. I know its a
> big solution to a small problem, but I am OCD and like to fix things. I don't
> know if there is a corolary for linux users, but it feels logical that there
> would be.

the approach is clear/simple.

the immediate question for me is whether to "do it" in:

  (a) the /etc/hosts
  (b) my local DNS server's records
  (c) the Squid/Privoxy/Tor config files

and whether, by any of the above methods, I'm then complicating the whole 
DNS-leak matter I've been reading abt in the Privoxy/Firefox thread ...

richard
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