Re: Polipo and dnsUseGethostbyname - what is the best option and does it matter?

2010-04-12 Thread Matthew
I'm not sure whether either of these bugs are fixed at present (ugh). So I'd recommend sticking with yes (or true, I guess it's called now). If yes is the same as true then this is a setting the Polipo manual strongly advises against. Finally, if dnsUseGethostbyname is true, Polipo never

Re: Polipo and dnsUseGethostbyname - what is the best option and does it matter?

2010-04-11 Thread andrew
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 04:24:06PM +0100, pump...@cotse.net wrote 2.7K bytes in 64 lines about: The standard Polipo configuration file for Ubuntu located at https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/build-scripts/config/polipo.conf should replace the configuration file one downloads

Re: Polipo and dnsUseGethostbyname - what is the best option and does it matter?

2010-04-11 Thread Matthew
and...@torproject.org wrote: In practice, with that config file, dns queries are passed to tor directly for resolution, not being done by polipo nor the actual system resolver. Thank you for the confirmation. If you change the options, you should see polipo query your local dns resolver

Re: Polipo and dnsUseGethostbyname - what is the best option and does it matter?

2010-04-11 Thread Matthew
If you change the options, you should see polipo query your local dns resolver either directly, or via gethostbyname. But if you change it to false would that not be the safest option - from what I can gather in this situation Polipo would never do its own DNS.

Re: Polipo and dnsUseGethostbyname - what is the best option and does it matter?

2010-04-11 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:14:31PM +0100, Matthew wrote: If you change the options, you should see polipo query your local dns resolver either directly, or via gethostbyname. But if you change it to false would that not be the safest option - from what I can gather in this situation Polipo

Polipo and dnsUseGethostbyname - what is the best option and does it matter?

2010-04-08 Thread Matthew
Hello, The standard Polipo configuration file for Ubuntu located at https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/build-scripts/config/polipo.conf should replace the configuration file one downloads when Polipo is installed according to http://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-doc-unix.html.en.