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by assembler
Mon Jan 18, 2010 8:29 am
Forum: Requests
Topic: DNS resolution and Proxy settings
Replies: 3
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Re: DNS resolution and Proxy settings

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 ...
by assembler
Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:39 am
Forum: Requests
Topic: DNS resolution and Proxy settings
Replies: 3
Views: 5256

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 ...