Re: [Fwd: Re: dnsUseGethostbyname with Tor - strange settings?]

Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>> If dnsUseGethostbyname = false or = reluctantly does that mean there is 
>> DNS leakage?
>>     
>
> Please set socksParentProxy to 127.0.0.1:9050 and let's be done with
> this discussion.
>
>   
I understand that this discussion is becoming irritating to you (and 
perhaps to others) but I ask for a reason.

Here (http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/tor.html) you 
suggest that when using Polipo with Tor:

Polipo is configured by setting a number of configuration variables in 
Polipo's configuration file, which is either ~/.polipo or 
/etc/polipo/config, whichever exists. In order to tell Polipo to use tor 
and not to cache any fetched pages on disk, you will want to add the 
following lines to your configuration file:
socksParentProxy = localhost:9050
diskCacheRoot=""

The Tor people use this file 
(https://svn.torproject.org/svn/torbrowser/trunk/build-scripts/config/polipo.conf) 
to replace the standard Polipo configuration file which says:

socksParentProxy = "localhost:9050"
socksProxyType = socks5

So I think my question is valid.  If both your file and the Tor file 
says "localhost" and not 127.0.0.1 does that mean there is DNS leakage 
if using ANY of the Polipo seetings for dnsUseGethostbyname ("yes" which 
is the same as "true", "reluctantly", "happily" or "no" which is the 
same as "false")?

Thanks again - I do not want to get obsessive but it would be nice to 
know the answer!


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