Re: Proper TOR DNS Configuration Testing Help

[Mike Cardwell <tor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Manning wrote:
> Hello - I'm just starting to pay attention to this mailing list so 
> forgive me if this subject has been brought up before.
>
> I'm interested in setting up a [or using an existing] service that could 
> test for a proper DNS configuration [among other things].  The goal 
> being that a person could visit a web page to confirm that their DNS 
> queries were being forwarded through the TOR network and not using a 
> local DNS server. 

I was considering doing something similar but haven't found the time 
recently. I got around to setting up a basic page which does the DNS 
check you're refering to, and also does a check to make sure gopher:// 
requests are being proxied:

http://clayman.tor.grepular.com/torcheck.cgi

The DNS check basically works by just turning on binds query logging, 
and then having a daemon which tails the log file looking for the 
appropriate requests and then making the data available to the cgi

Regards,
Mike