Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-25 Thread antispam06
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012, at 15:13, adrelanos wrote: Jerzy Łogiewa: How dangerous are the DNS leak for some user? Very dangerous! http://www.howdoihidemyip.com/dnsleak.htm The DNS leak provides your ISP name and location to the website that you are visiting, thus undermining your ability to

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-25 Thread Andreas Krey
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:06:10 +, esolve esolve wrote: I'm just wondering how can the website know your ISP or location? Website sets up DNS server for its dns entries with low ttl, so it gets asked every time. Trace where requests come from: gotcha. Depending on the DNS setup you get the ISP

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-25 Thread antispam06
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012, at 13:06, esolve esolve wrote: I'm just wondering how can the website know your ISP or location? One way is just to interrogate some tables. That points out the ISP for sure, but the qality of the location is variable. Another way is to use the information provided by your

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-18 Thread Bry8 Star
I don't like that some entity like a ISP is making list of stuff or keeping track of stuff, for any hacker or anyone to see. It is not their job. if a government operated entity does that (where tracking info is highly guarded), then that is different. and, if such a government tracking dpi

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-18 Thread adrelanos
Jerzy Łogiewa: How dangerous are the DNS leak for some user? Very dangerous! http://www.howdoihidemyip.com/dnsleak.htm The DNS leak provides your ISP name and location to the website that you are visiting, thus undermining your ability to stay anonymous on the internet. For example, if you

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:13 AM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Jerzy Łogiewa: How dangerous are the DNS leak for some user? Very dangerous! http://www.howdoihidemyip.com/dnsleak.htm The DNS leak provides your ISP name and location to the website that you are visiting, thus

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-18 Thread Gregory Maxwell
[bouncing back to the list because I think it's useful] On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Paul Syverson syver...@itd.nrl.navy.mil wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:21:13AM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Paul Syverson syver...@itd.nrl.navy.mil wrote: Logic

[tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-17 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
hello! How dangerous are the DNS leak for some user? If I understand, the main problem is own ISP knowing about some access, but not any details of the transaction? -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu ___ tor-talk mailing list

Re: [tor-talk] How dangerous are DNS leak?

2012-09-17 Thread Edward Thompson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to add to this question: can a DNS request be used to track which IP addresses have visited which sites (assuming that your ISP is not a threat)? Cheers, Ed hello! How dangerous are the DNS leak for some user? If I understand, the main