Re: [tor-talk] Use of socat and tor-resolve with Tor

2012-11-15 Thread grarpamp
> 1. Shouldn't we also include > socksuser=nobody Use tcpdump to see if socat is setting a string here. Either way, Tor does not require it, but read the Tor manpage on that. > 2. I have studied the socat man page, but still cannot figure out what > bind=localhost listens on >

Re: [tor-talk] Use of socat and tor-resolve with Tor

2012-11-14 Thread whistler
On: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:23:13 -0500, grarpamp wrote: >> I have been using socat to torify connections. Since I was unsure >> where a network address was being translated > >tor-resolve is not needed, socat is sufficient. >Both can resolve dns via socks4a and/or socks5. >Verify the behavior with t

Re: [tor-talk] Use of socat and tor-resolve with Tor

2012-11-12 Thread grarpamp
> I have been using socat to torify connections. Since I was unsure > where a network address was being translated tor-resolve is not needed, socat is sufficient. Both can resolve dns via socks4a and/or socks5. Verify the behavior with tcpdump, etc. ___

[tor-talk] Use of socat and tor-resolve with Tor

2012-11-12 Thread whistler
I have been using socat to torify connections. Since I was unsure where a network address was being translated, I supposed that I could avoid the issue by first using tor-resolve to translate the address to a numerical IPV4 address, and then pass that to socat. I have now been told that this use