[tor-talk] Tor transparent proxy -> strange behavior regarding .onion

[Ivan Markin]

Paul Syverson:
> This is an onion address. Ordinarily configured Firefox will not recognize
> it as such and simply generate a DNS request. As per IETF RFC 7686,
> "Applications that do not implement the Tor protocol SHOULD generate
> an error upon the use of .onion and SHOULD NOT perform a DNS lookup."
> So your Firefox is performing appropriately. 

Sure. To go around RFC 7686 OP has already disabled it:
> Regarding Firefox, I already set the network.dns.blockDotOnion = false

And it still doesn't work.

> To go to the onion address for FaceBook you should use Tor Browser.
> https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html

I guess the OP is already aware of all of the downsides of Transparent
Proxying.
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Ivan Markin