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Re: [tor-talk] DNS hijacking



I was thinking of the DNS server which was responsible for their domain. If
this is a persistent problem they've encountered over multiple circuits, it
seems to me far more likely that their DNS provider is to blame.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:50 PM, Paul Syverson <paul.syverson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> If s/he is using Tor and hasn't done something odd to reconfigure, then
> the DNS resolve is done at the exit relay.  His local DNS resolver is
> never contacted. Also, original poster said that local resolution
> worked correctly (presumably the correct IP address is known); only
> over Tor was there a problem.
>
> HTH,
> Paul
>
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 07:32:05PM -0400, Max Bond wrote:
> > Have you tried this over multiple circuits? Is it possible your DNS
> > provider is the one doing something naughty?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:12 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Justaguy <justaguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > If you could find out the exit, that is doing this, you can report
> them,
> > > > to
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ReportingBadRelays
> > >
> > > Most users will not be able to figure this out because until
> > > this ticket is implemented there is no simple way to do so.
> > > Without being able to at least issue a simple getevents for
> > > the backbuffer in the moment, Tor is likely to have subsequently
> > > switched exits, the user will have nothing to go on, and have
> > > given up inquiry. So we end up missing badexits without this.
> > >
> > > Combine setevents circ and stream
> > > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11179
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