Re: [tor-talk] socks connect

[Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:28:15PM +0200, Perforin wrote:
> HI That's because the DNS requests are not made through Tor, so Pidgin
> can't resolv the hidden service onion URL. You need Polipo or Privoxy
> running, configure it with tunneling everything through Tor (don't
> forget the DNS requests!!!). Lastly you need to configure pidgin to use
> the local privoxy/polipo port as a socks5 proxy.

I think the "DNS requests are being done by your application rather
than passing the hostname into Tor" theory is a likely one.

But telling your Pidgin to use an http proxy (privoxy or polipo) as a
socks5 proxy is definitely not going to do what you want. :)

In my case I configure my Pidgin to use the proxy type called
"Tor/Privacy (SOCKS5)". This setting tells Pidgin that you really
do want the traffic to go through the proxy, and if it can't use the
proxy you would rather it not attempt the connection. If your Pidgin
doesn't have this proxy type, you should consider upgrading.

From the Tor side, you might set
TestSocks 1
which will make your Tor client log more useful debugging things for you.

Hope that helps,
--Roger

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