On 10/05/2012 03:31 PM, antispa...@sent.at wrote: > I have in a folder on a 64bit Linux distro the TBB. I read the Vidalia > bundle has been discontinued. So I jumped at using this configuration. > I have read that the socks 5 proxy is on 127.0.0.1:9050. So I tried > pushing through it a jabber.org connection (XMPP) with Pidgin. Pidgin > even lists Socks 4, Socks 5 and a Tor/Privacy (Socks). Yet, the > connection fails with either option. > > Am I doing something wrong? TorBrowser is up and works through Tor. > Vidalia is up and running.
Depending on the version of TBB you have, Tor will randomly select the SOCKS5 port it listens on. I don't know of official documentation off hand, but I know there are a couple ways to find it. It is specified in Data/Tor/port.conf within the extracted directory (on my computer it is tor-browser_en-US). Or you can also retrieve it within the Tor Browser by checking the proxy settings: Edit->Preferences, in the Advanced menu, select the Network tab, click Settings in the Connection section, and the port is stated for the SOCKS port. I hope this helps. > > Second question: why does Pidgin make a difference between Socks 5 and > Tor/Privacy? Socks 5 comes as an improvement over Socks 4 as it can > route DNS requests as well. So Socks 4 leaks DNS, Socks 5 shouldn't as > long as it is well configured. Than what's the difference? > This looks like it should explain it: https://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11110 tldr; There were still leaks for various reasons (some "unavoidable") but the Tor proxy option is a separate implementation. > Cheers! > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
