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Anothony Georgeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - If so, is dns-proxy-tor a solution to this? > > Yes, "Tor-Dns-Proxy" is one available solution, As the author of dns-proxy-tor, I hope I can clear up a few things about using it on Windows. If you've properly configured every network application to use Tor and you still see DNS requests leaking with a packet sniffer, then dns-proxy-tor might be appropriate for you. Leaks typically happen when an application attempts to resolve a domain name instead of passing it through directly to Tor with SOCKS4A or SOCKS5. Privoxy solves this problem for HTTP and other protocols when the application supports HTTP CONNECT. Applications that properly support SOCKS4A or SOCKS5 also don't leak DNS requests. DNS leakage remains a problem in every other situation. > 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 Actually, no matter how you invoke the Windows binary (win32/dns-proxy-tor.exe in the distribution), it will always run as a service. The Windows "port" is really an afterthought since I don't use Windows. In my testing, once installed and started the service will permanently remain in the "starting" state, never advancing to "started". This is somehow related to the PAR packaging, as it doesn't occur when running perl directly. Regardless, dns-proxy-tor runs normally despite the constant "starting" state. > 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. What you're referring to must be something related to Windows services and not to dns-proxy-tor in particular. dns-proxy-tor itself is not interactive; it accepts command line arguments and either terminates or runs forever. Installing the service is the only way I recommend using the provided binary. > see it in action. Also, if DNS routing slows you can > clear the cache with the click of a button. Tor caches DNS lookups internally, so I see no need for another level of caching. > 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). If you want to run tor-dns-proxy attached to a terminal, i.e. not as a service in the background, you can install perl and use the script (not the one in win32/) as you would on Unix.
