Firefox,Torbutton leaks real IP Address.

[phobos at rootme.org]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:15:27AM -0800, luis_a_maceira at yahoo.com wrote 2.0K bytes in 34 lines about:
: The combination Firefox-3.0.3(in fact,Iceweasel-3.0.3),Torbutton-1.2.0 leaks my real IPaddress.This happens BETWEEN when I initiate Tor-0.2.0.31 with the bash command /usr/local/tor/bin/tor and the moment when Tor effectively establishes a connection-circuit.This can be 60 seconds or more,and if in between we connect to the Internet withFirefox-Torbutton the real IP address is used(even with torbutton running-green)I tested with www.showmyip.com and others.My fear is if the same could happen when Tor changes circuit by ten-ten minutes or so,when leaves the previous circuit to the next one.(what happens in the transition moments).I did not test that situation.                                                    Thanks. 

Is torbutton enabled in Firefox the entire time?  When I try to
replicate this, Firefox reports the socks proxy isn't available.

Are you using Firefox directly with Tor?  Or do you have privoxy/polipo
in between Firefox and Tor?

-- 
Andrew