Hi Steven, --- Steven Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Question 1: are my dns requests being leaked (or > better yet, how I can tell for myself - ethereal?)? Are you reffering soley to HTTP/S traffic? If so, your DNS quaries are not leaked if you have your browser and Privoxy configured correctly. That is, if your browser is setup to route into Privoxy (which uses Socks4a) and Privoxy's "config.txt" has this line at the top: forward-socks4a / localhost:9050 . If you are reffering to non-HTTP/S traffic then most likly your DNS quaries *are* being leaked. In which case you need to use an app that routes your DNS quaries through Tor. > - If so, is dns-proxy-tor a solution to this? Yes, "Tor-Dns-Proxy" is one available solution, another solution is "TorDNS-Localhostv v.1.7". These apps capture all DNS quaries and route them through Tor. Tor-Dns-Proxy can be run from command line or as a service. Unfortunitly, I am unable to run Tor-Dns-Proxy as a service becasue the service won't start. In my testes I ran it from command line. The only problem I have with Tor-Dns-Proxy is the command line mode requires end-user input...You can't run "start Tor-Dns-Proxy" and have it launch, you need to type "continue" then it will begin routing the DNS quaries. *I am emailing the authors to request automatic running of Tor-Dns-Proxy via. "start Tor-Dns-Proxy". TorDNS-Localhost v.1.7 does not run as a service but can be lauched from command line without extra end-user input. TorDNS-Localhost has a nice GUI that shows the real-time routing of DNS quaries so you can see it in action. Also, if DNS routing slows you can clear the cache with the click of a button. <http://sandos.ath.cx/~badger/tordns.html> I use TorDNS-Localhost but I would prefer to use Tor-Dns-Proxy. The only reason I *don't* use Tor-Dns-Proxy is I can not automatically start it via. command line (hopefully the author will correct this). > Question 2: Is freecap a solution to dns leakage? Or > is this targeted for another situation? No, Freecap does not fix DNS leakage as it uses Socks5. If you want to use a "socksifying" app I suggest TorCap or TorCap2; TorCap and TorCap2 use Socks4a. TorCap is run completly from command line but it can't route the app "Stunnel" (usefull for Remailng). TorCap2 uses a GUI and can route Stuennel. Hope this doesn't confuse you and is helpfull, Anogeorgeo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
