On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:47:49PM +0200, Thomas Sj?gren wrote: > Hi, > I wrote up a small guide on how to use Tor with various software a > couple of days ago. > The document is available at > http://www.northernsecurity.net/articles/torify.html Thanks, Thomas! Cool HOWTO. Have you thought about adding it to the wiki? (http://wiki.noreply.org/wiki/TheOnionRouter) I worry about sections 2 through 4, though. One warning about using tsocks in this way, however. tsocks correctly replaces 'connect' calls with calls to your SOCKS proxy (Tor). But tsocks doesn't do anything about requests to your DNS server. This means that if you refer to any machines by hostname when you're using tsocks, you'll be sending that hostname over the network, perhaps leaking the fact that you are about to connect to the corresponding server. Tor 0.0.8 has a workaround for this problem, until we can hack tsocks (or a work-alike) to support DNS. Instead of using a hostname directly, first use 'tor-resolve' to resolve the hostname into an IP (via Tor) and then use that IP address with your tsocks-ified application. -- Nick Mathewson (PGP key changed on 15Aug2004; see http://wangafu.net/key.txt)
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