On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:48:32 +0200, ilf wrote: > Martin Lambers: > > That's true if we do DNS ourselves (necessary for SOCKS4, optional > > for SOCKS5), but we want the proxy to do it for us, especially in > > the context of Tor usage, and then SOCKS5 is different (simpler) > > than SOCKS4. > > The Tor Project recommends SOCKS 4a over SOCKS 5 against DNS leaks: > https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#WarningsAboutSOCKSandDNSInformationLeaks >
Yes, but only if the SOCKS5 application does DNS lookups itself, which we do not. What we do is basically what SOCKS4a would do. Martin
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