[tor-talk] How to install tor in Linux just as secure as tor-browser-bundle ?

Tor Relays at brwyatt.net tor at brwyatt.net
Sat Jan 14 17:56:45 UTC 2012


For some reason, FireFox doesn't do DNS resolution over SOCKS proxies
(this is a known bug). Using an HTTP proxy (such as Polipo) will fix this
(you have to also set FireFox to use it). The following tutorial should
help, but the basic idea is to install Polipo, and have it connect to the
Tor SOCKS proxy. http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t807851/

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:27:45 +0530, "J. Bakshi" <bakshi12 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Many many thanks to the developers for this great projects. I am using
tor
> since some days and
> it is a great tool for security concerned users.
> 
> I am a debian users and tested tor with the tor-browser-bundle. I am
> interested to install tor
> on my system and the benefit of doing so is; I get the updated package
> automatically when doing "apt-get upgrade"
> Hence I have installed 
> 
> apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb vidalia 
> 
> And also configured fireforx to use socks port 9050. The 
> https://check.torproject.org/  shows a
> tor enable configuration but the log repeatedly warns about dns leaking
> and suggests to use socks4a (privoxy/socat).
> 
> What Should I do here ? I have not found privoxy/socat/polipo in tor
> bundle package. So what step do I need to configure
> my locally installed tor to make it as secured as tor-bundle. Also
> interested to have Aurora browser as it has specially tweaked
> for tor. Is it safe to simply download the aurora from net ?
> 
> Thanks in advanced.
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