TorDNS local DNS server for Tor windows users

Wilson cwilson352 at cogeco.ca
Tue Dec 6 12:22:25 UTC 2005


Glymr Darkmoon wrote:

>yes, it most definitely should not accept external connections
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>good job wilson... 
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>the simplest solution to the issue of dynamic ip's is to have a dynamic
>dns service, i think, not certain, but i am pretty sure its possible to
>tell it to use a named address (?) damn what a nasty piece of crap this
>windows thing is.
>
>On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 20:29:39 -0500, "Wilson" <cwilson352 at cogeco.ca>
>said:
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>>Chris Palmer wrote:
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>>>Wilson writes:
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>>>>What I am going to do is correct the problem by coding TorDNS to
>>>>listen on the actual ip address of your internet connection rather
>>>>than local host.
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>>>You might consider having an option to make it only *accept* requests
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>>>from localhost, even if it actually *listens* on the public IP.
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>>There is two version os TorDNS, one that listens on locahost 127.0.0.1 
>>(WinXP) and
>>one that listens on isp IP (win2000)..... im going to code that option 
>>in there later on.... taking
>>a break :)
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>>C. Wilson
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Please let me know how TorDNS works on your win2k system..... :)

C. Wilson



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