dns resolution behind proxy

[Uwe Werler]

Hello Guus,

thanks for Your fast reply.

Does it mean only socks is affected and http proxy should work? If this is the case then this may be a temp. solution.

Thanks and regards!

Uwe

Am 27.10.2015 14:08:36, schrieb Guus Sliepen:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:33:35PM +0000, Uwe Werler wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why tinc tries to resolve host names before connection even 
> > with configured (socks5) proxy which fails behind restrictive firewalls.

> You are right that it shouldn't be necessary to do this with SOCKS5.
> With SOCKS4, it needs to know the exact address, and then I just used
> that for SOCKS5 as well.
> 
> > Is there any "workaround"?

> The workaround is to do resolve the hostnames yourself and replace the
> hostnames in the Address statements with numeric addresses. I'll try to
> change tinc so it will allow connections via SOCKS5 even if it cannot
> resolve the hostname itself.
> 
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>      Guus Sliepen <> guus at tinc-vpn.org> >
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