transparent DNS proxy for tor resolution [was: Confused about Tor settings]

coderman coderman at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 22:45:53 UTC 2006


On 10/3/06, glymr <glymr_darkmoon at ml1.net> wrote:
> ...
> when is tor going to run a local dns proxy so this dns leak garbage is
> done away with.

you may want to look at janusvm ( http://janusvm.peertech.org/ ) which
uses a PPTP VPN tunnel to force a default route which does transparent
DNS proxy through dns-proxy-tor on a virtual machine to plug the DNS
leak.  [note that you may need to alter your DNS settings if your
local gateway is also the nameserver - see docs for details]

i don't know that this capacity could be integrated any further into
tor in a cross-platform / effective manner.  the mapaddress capability
is a good abstraction point for this in my opinion. [that is, building
a full DNS resolver into tor would be complex and there exist easy
ways to integrate mapaddres to your host resolution]

best regards,



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