Feature Request #2378
[icecat] please make tor button proxy DNS requests by default
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Description
hi!
i have noticed that even though i have the tor button on with tor working, the DNS requests are not proxied by default. on one hand this has privacy implications, and on the other it implies not being able to visit onion services, that is something one would expect when being "torified".
at runtime, it is possible to alter that setting, either in the preferences panel (general -> network proxy settings -> proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5) or in about:config (network.proxy.socks_remote_dns -> set to true).
however i haven't found a way of make that configuration stick, and for me it's easy to forget to put that setting everytime i open the browser.
hope this can be fixed, thank you!
History
Updated by bill-auger almost 5 years ago
- Priority changed from bug to privacy issue
- Status changed from open to forwarded upstream
there is a bug report on the icecat mailing list about this - i will mark this as 'forwarded upstream' for now
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2019-01/msg00002.html
the user-defined settings should be remembered though - that could be a bug
Updated by freemor almost 5 years ago
- Assignee set to freemor
As I do not think we changed anything WRT the Tor Button plugin and a quick
looks show it does have some means to do this perhaps this should be pushed
upstream.
I'll check first when I get a chance to be sure that this isn't an intentional
choice. As exit nodes can monitor traffic and as DNS is not by default
encrypted it may have been a conscious choice to leave this off.
Updated by espiropapa over 4 years ago
apparently this is working now!
when tor button is enabled, network.proxy.socks_remote_dns is set to true by default :)
Updated by freemor over 4 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from forwarded upstream to fixed
Just checked. This works correctly in the new build of IceCat
Closing as fixed