Mozilla Thunderbird leaking ?

Frank Helk frank.helk at nis-ingenieure.de
Fri Sep 2 09:42:43 UTC 2005


On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:23:55 +0200, Frank Helk wrote:

>I've just updated to 1.0.6 (20050716), which looks like having 
>the same problem - even while Thunderbird is configured to
>use TOR/Privoxy (and most of the communication looks
>encrypted) I capture DNS requests about the used NNTP server
>circumventing TOR and Privoxy.

Additional Note:

TOR detects that behaviour:

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Sep 02 10:09:10.085 [warn] fetch_from_buf_socks(): Your application (using socks4 on port 119) is giving Tor only an IP address. Applications that do 
DNS resolves themselves may leak information. Consider using Socks4A (e.g. via privoxy or socat) instead.
Sep 02 10:09:12.757 [warn] fetch_from_buf_socks(): Your application (using socks4 on port 119) is giving Tor only an IP address. Applications that do 
DNS resolves themselves may leak information. Consider using Socks4A (e.g. via privoxy or socat) instead.
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-FH




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