[tor-talk] torsocks vs proxychains4

[mrnobody at mail-on.us]

It usually works well, but for instance, when running firefox (or other
browser with it) it may leak your DNS requests, so beware of that.

To avoid this you could edit /etc/resolv.conf to
nameserver 127.0.0.1

and your requests will be resolved through tor.


Lara:
> I trust torsocks more, not because it has tor in its name, but because
> Jake is working or has worked on it. But torsocks 2 makes youtube-dl get
> out of memory and swap too.
>
> proxychains4 is something I just found out. It works well. It was built
> for something else, although it can be used only for tor too. It is more
> complex and that is usually not a good thing. And there is no -i switch
> to generate a user/password pair.
>
> What can you tell me about these two apps? Can I trust proxychains4 not
> to leak data?
>
> Cheers,
> Lara


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