I have found a workaround for this. In Mac OS X, with Vidalia Tor client you can use the built-in Polipo HTTP proxy instead of the SOCKSv5 proxy and then domain names are resolved by the Tor network.
Just use 127.0.0.1:8118 as an HTTP proxy instead of 127.0.0.1:9050 as a SOCKSv5.
Anyway, since ...
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- Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:29 am
- Forum: Requests
- Topic: DNS resolution and Proxy settings
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- Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:39 am
- Forum: Requests
- Topic: DNS resolution and Proxy settings
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DNS resolution and Proxy settings
It would be nice if there was an option to allow DNS resolving through proxy, so we could use TOR hidden trackers with URLs ending in the .onion pseudo-TLD.
I think that kind of trackers will be more popular in the near future and their hostnames can't be resolved by regular nameservers outside the ...
I think that kind of trackers will be more popular in the near future and their hostnames can't be resolved by regular nameservers outside the ...