Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Even better, use a local dns proxy. That way polipo won't block on name
>> lookups.
>
> Polipo will not block on name lookups, even if there's no local DNS
> proxy.  That's the very reason why Polipo has its own DNS resolver.
>
> If you run Polipo with dnsUseGethostbyname set to true, Polipo will
> block on DNS lookups, even if there's a local DNS proxy.

Yes. To be clear: If you use a local DNS proxy (at least dnsmasq), you can set
it to use the hosts file to answer queries. Thus you do not need to use
dnsUseGethostbyname (which is blocking).

-j.


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