Lynx leaks DNS

[Jim McClanahan <jimmymac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Quite by accident I discovered that the lynx browser is leaking DNS
addresses.  I have verified this on:

   Lynx Version 2.8.4dev.7 (03 Aug 2000)   and
   Lynx Version 2.8.5rel.1 (04 Feb 2004)

lynx is called from scripts with the following statements:

   export http_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export https_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export ftp_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export gopher_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export news_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export newspost_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export newsreply_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export snews_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export snewspost_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export snewsreply_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export nntp_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export wais_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export finger_proxy=http://localhost:8119
   export cso_proxy=http://localhost:8119

Privoxy is listening on localhost:8119 and sends requests to tor in the
standard way.  I have verified from Privoxy's log that requests are
received and       http://torcheck.xenobite.eu     verifies the request
is coming through the Tor network.  Supplying linx with the url of p.p
(an alias that Privoxy understands) demonstrates that lynx does a DNS
request and then ignores the result. 

Comments?  Suggestions?