[guardian-dev] DNS and full device Tor

Nathan of Guardian nathan at guardianproject.info
Wed Jan 6 14:16:04 EST 2016



On Wed, Jan 6, 2016, at 01:57 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> I was just chatting with Nathan, he figured out a way using a small DNS
> daemon to get DNS working better in Orbot's VPN mode.  I was thinking
> that this would also help with Orwall's transparent proxying issue with
> Android thinking that wifi connections do not have working internet:
> 
> https://github.com/EthACKdotOrg/orWall/issues/87
> 
> While Nathan got it working using a native code daemon, we came up with
> an idea that hopefully will prove to be the ideal solution: Java code
> that serves as a DNS-UDP forwarded to DNS-TCP.  Then any DNS server that
> supports TCP (which is most) can be used through Tor.
> 
> Here's one project that looks like a promising source of code:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/javadnsrouter/
> 

The solution Orbot is using is Pdnsd and the idea and some code from the
SocksDroid project:
https://github.com/PeterCxy/SocksDroid

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  Nathan of Guardian
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