google search redirected to language/country of Tor exit node

[Matt Thorne]

Since I am making a hosts file... has anyone else encountered this problem 
with other services. for example other search engines.
 -=Mat=-

 On 8/30/05, Matt Thorne <mlthorne at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
>  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.
>  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...) 
>  I wonder to if this is a IE fix or if firefox and other browsers check 
> the hosts file as well. 
>  -=Matt=-
>  On 8/30/05, OpenMacNews < OpenMacNews at speakeasy.net> wrote:  
> > 
> > hi matt,
> > 
> > > I am rather fuzzy on the DNS-leak problem, but I don't feel that this 
> > will
> > > aggravate it. As I understand the Hosts file process, the browser 
> > checks this 
> > > file before it makes any requests for a webpage. It shouldn't send any
> > > packets or process any addresses before it checks this file for any
> > > redirections you have entered into it.
> > 
> > in general, true. but on OSX, possibly (must check) complicated by 
> > lookupd 
> > priorities ... arrrrgh. makes my head hurt!
> > 
> > > Seems to me that if you change your local DNS servers records then the 
> > local
> > > computer will have to send a message to the DNS server asking it for 
> > the page 
> > > just like it would any other web page. I personally can't ring in on 
> > the
> > > security of this, but it seems like this would be less secure.
> > 
> > fair point. though my internal DNS is accessible only to/from the 
> > internal 
> > LAN. the question is more ... will 'something' identifiable 'leak' into 
> > the
> > Tor-bound stream. i simply dunno.
> > 
> > > as to the squid/privoxy/tor configs, It would seem to be secure. But 
> > to be
> > > honest, I wouldn't know. I leave it to the experts to change those 
> > programs 
> > > as I have only been using tor for a short time.
> > 
> > likewise. a week ago i was a squid-less, privoxy-less & tor-less 
> > 'virgin'
> > myself :-D
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
>
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