merc1...@f-m.fm: > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014, at 11:54, Mike Cardwell wrote: > > The exit nodes do the DNS requests. The client doesn't see an IP address. > > It connects to the Tor SOCKS interface and says, "connect me to hostname > > example.com on port N". It doesn't look up the IP address of > > "example.com" > > and *then* connect to it. Hidden services don't have IP addresses and > > DNS resolution isn't involved in routing connections to them. > > So when I request to connect to example.com, that request goes all the > way to the exit node, which then is supposed to do the DNS lookup? > Again, this is impossible, as .onion domains would be bypassed.
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