Fwd: google search redirected to language/country of Tor exit node

[Matt Thorne]

 know what you mean. till I hear otherwise I am going to go with this as my 
solution to this problem. If anyone see's a problem that I missed please 
speak up.
 hummm. might even be a good Idea to offer this in the Wiki. (read I am 
really lazy and probably couldn't write a good Read-Me if I tried...) 
 I wonder to if this is a IE fix or if firefox and other browsers check the 
hosts file as well. 
 -=Matt=-
 On 8/30/05, OpenMacNews <OpenMacNews at speakeasy.net> wrote:  
> 
> hi matt,
> 
> > I am rather fuzzy on the DNS-leak problem, but I don't feel that this 
> will
> > aggravate it. As I understand the Hosts file process, the browser checks 
> this 
> > file before it makes any requests for a webpage. It shouldn't send any
> > packets or process any addresses before it checks this file for any
> > redirections you have entered into it.
> 
> in general, true. but on OSX, possibly (must check) complicated by lookupd 
> 
> priorities ... arrrrgh. makes my head hurt!
> 
> > Seems to me that if you change your local DNS servers records then the 
> local
> > computer will have to send a message to the DNS server asking it for the 
> page 
> > just like it would any other web page. I personally can't ring in on the
> > security of this, but it seems like this would be less secure.
> 
> fair point. though my internal DNS is accessible only to/from the internal 
> 
> LAN. the question is more ... will 'something' identifiable 'leak' into 
> the
> Tor-bound stream. i simply dunno.
> 
> > as to the squid/privoxy/tor configs, It would seem to be secure. But to 
> be
> > honest, I wouldn't know. I leave it to the experts to change those 
> programs 
> > as I have only been using tor for a short time.
> 
> likewise. a week ago i was a squid-less, privoxy-less & tor-less 'virgin'
> myself :-D
> 
> cheers,
> 
> richard
> 
> 
> 
>
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