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Re:A month with BadOnions by doomrobo on Sunday June 21, 2015 @09:54PM (#9755768)
Also note that DNS lookups do not go through a SOCKS proxy, which leaves a huge surface of attack and monitoring.
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Re:A month with BadOnions by mhuffman on Monday June 22, 2015 @10:51AM (#9758703)
DNS does seem to go through SOCKS to an exit node, which then does the name resolution[1]

Supposedly more attention is to be paid to this in the next major version.

http://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/8/how-does-tor-route-...

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