#Using tor browser reddit 2019 windows#
If the app doesn't allow that, then you will need to set the proxy in Windows itself. If that's the case, put in 127.0.0.1:9150 and you'll be considerable safer. Many apps such as Firefox and Chrome will allow SOCK5 with DNS proxy. Regardless of whether you use VPN or not, the question is whether the specific app that you are using will use the DNS that you specify or not. You will hear over and over that it is generally not recommended to use Tor with a VPN. Basically it routes all traffic through Tor via a SOCKS5 proxy which includes DNS. Contacting the development team directly would be best. If you ever do find a DNS leak, that would be considered to be a major security hole and would be fixed ASAP. I did some testing on my own with several apps and saw this for myself. Even torsock on the Linux CLI does an admirable job of preventing DNS Leaks for Linux CLI apps. Yes Tor Browser does a great job of preventing DNS Leaks.I'm interested in knowing what, if anything, I can learn from Tor that might be transferable to working with a VPN. Just to be clear, I'm not the least bit interested in running Tor in conjunction with a VPN, either before, or after the Tor connection. (2) How is the DNS leakage prevented? (3) Is the method transferable to preventing the DNS leak when using a VPN with Linux? Questions: (1) Does Tor itself prevent the DNS leak, or is it the total environment provided by the Tor Browser bundle that prevents it? Likewise, inserting block-outside-dns into the relevant OpenVPN config file (under Windows) seems to solve the problem. The supplied desktop applications of several VPN providers have an option to use their own DNS servers, and no leakage is apparent. In Windows, the situation is a bit better with regard to using a VPN. Although cursory check with often suggest that the DNS is not being leaked, using the more extensive test that's provided shows that the DNS is actually being served by my regular ISP. In particular, no modifications of the relevant OpenVPN config files seems to inhibit leakage of the DNS.
Despite testing the advice of numerous different purported solutions (such as this, this and this) I have found none that works, perhaps because the answers to the questions are (or appear at least) to be provided by people who have found ad-hoc solutions rather than by experts in OpenVPN. In contrast, VPNs on Linux always seem to leak the DNS. In fact, I get the impression that the DNS is provided by the usual DNS service of whatever Tor Exit Node I'm routed through. For example, if I connect to in Tor Browser, using even the most lax of the security settings, the DNS servers that are reported are all completely different than those I usually use from my ISP.
If I look for DNS leaks when using Tor Browser, I find none.
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