Thus spake Nick 'Zaf' Clifford (zaf@xxxxxxxxx): > Hey ya, > > Just noticed one small problem with Tor + Firefox + IPv6. > I'm aware that Tor doesn't yet support IPv6, but I found an interesting > development with respect to a system that has IPv6 configured and working. > > If you are using Tor (and have Firefox configured to use the HTTP > proxy), Firefox will not use the proxy for IPv6 traffic. This means that > if you visit a website using Tor, and it has a img, href, etc to a ipv6 > hostname, Firefox will happily connect with your native IPv6 connection > (bypassing Tor). > > The work around for this is to disable Ipv6 (about:config, > network.dns.disableIPv6 = true) Nice. Thanks for reporting this, I will add it to the next reelease of the dev torbutton. One thing concerns me though: Since this setting is under network.dns, does this mean it disables using IPv6 only for DNS replies? Did you verify this actually works to block numerical IPv6 links as well? -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
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