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Re: Anonymity via Tor?
From: "GNU/Buanzo - mod_auth_openpgp" <buanzo () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:03:30 -0300
The most common mistake when someone uses tor is not to make DNS resolutions go through Tor, too. They call it "DNS leaking". More info here: http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#head-e0b83d1dae14b598d805a972c1e9b07f717a9be1 I run an anonymous proxy server, so I had to implement a couple of hacks here and there (all very well documented, check out tor.eff.org). Basicly, you tell Squid not to use internal nameservers, but to use an external dns resolver. This resolver gets the requests, but does the resolution through tor. A bit of extra delay, but good enough! See http://linux-consulting.buanzo.com.ar for more details. Sincerely, -- Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman / www.buanzo.com.ar
Current thread:
- Anonymity via Tor? Razorren (Apr 13)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Florian Rommel (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Scan_it (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? phillip () cryptolife org (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Marcos Marado (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? GNU/Buanzo - mod_auth_openpgp (Apr 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Vincenzo Ciaglia (Apr 15)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Krymson (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Jeffrey F. Bloss (Apr 16)
- RE: Anonymity via Tor? Petter Bruland (Apr 16)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? krymson (Apr 16)
- RE: Anonymity via Tor? David Gillett (Apr 17)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Apr 17)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? krymson (Apr 18)
- Re: Anonymity via Tor? kyle . bader (Apr 18)
- Re: Re: Anonymity via Tor? bardotherevolting (Apr 19)
(Thread continues...)
