On Wed, Oct 25, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Rob van der Hoeven wrote: > On Wed, 2017-10-25 at 16:50 -0400, Allen wrote: > > and what happens if you use dig alone to talk directly to tor? > > something like "dig -p torport hostname +tcp" (see man dig) > > > > A good idea, but the Tor daemon expects that all traffic arriving on > torport has been redirected by iptables. It asks IP tables for the > original destination, which is not there when you use dig directly with > torport. > > Rob,
Haven't you answered your own question right there? Dig picks a nameserver from your /etc/resolv.conf, tries to connect to it, your kernel magic redirects the request via Tor, so the exit node connects to the nameserver from /etc/resolv.conf ? GD -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
