Tor gives "resolve failed" errors even when IP address is supplied

[Roger Dingledine]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:09:59PM -0800, Jared Hansen wrote:
> Anyway, I seem to be unable to get any webpages through Tor.  I am
> using privoxy as a SOCK4a proxy to send traffic through Tor, and Tor

Hopefully you mean using privoxy as an http proxy.

> is receiving the requests (that much is apparent from the Tor logs).
> The log keeps telling me that there is a resolve failure, which is
> strange, because tor-resolve seems to work just fine.

If you turn SafeLogging to 0 in your torrc, it will tell you what address
Tor thought you were asking for. That might help to identify the problem,
e.g. if you're asking to connect to http://24.4.4.4/ rather than 24.4.4.4.

--Roger