Hi, Quite by accident I discovered that the lynx browser is leaking DNS addresses. I have verified this on:
Lynx Version 2.8.4dev.7 (03 Aug 2000) and Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004) lynx is called from scripts with the following statements: export http_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export https_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export ftp_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export gopher_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export news_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export newspost_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export newsreply_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export snews_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export snewspost_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export snewsreply_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export nntp_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export wais_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export finger_proxy=http://localhost:8119 export cso_proxy=http://localhost:8119 Privoxy is listening on localhost:8119 and sends requests to tor in the standard way. I have verified from Privoxy's log that requests are received and http://torcheck.xenobite.eu verifies the request is coming through the Tor network. Supplying linx with the url of p.p (an alias that Privoxy understands) demonstrates that lynx does a DNS request and then ignores the result. Comments? Suggestions?
