Closed Bug 1015760 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

firefox tries to do DNS locally instead of using socks proxy setting

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

29 Branch
x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 610896

People

(Reporter: maillist-mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release) Build ID: 20140512150801 Steps to reproduce: attached a windows pc to the LAN, assigned it a static local ip but no dns server and no default gw, started socks proxy server on the box with internet on it, listening on 0.0.0.0, and filled in the ip/port of the socks proxy on the windows box' firefox. (ping works, i can telnet to the socks port, the socks proxy is working, etc) Actual results: however without having a dns service available in the lan (or a full blown router) i can only open websites via numeric ip addresses (for example http://198.52.199.216/) - firefox tries to do the DNS lookups directly instead of passing them to the socks5 server. Expected results: firefox should not do dns lookups directly and then pass the resolved ip (if DNS exists) to the socks proxy. it should instead pass the dns name when it makes the proxy connection (socks4a and socks5 support server-side DNS.
OS: Linux → Windows 7
related to bug #615090 "Is you preference network.proxy.socks_remote_dns set to true (default is false) ? If it isn't, it's bug 610896." indeed, setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true makes it work. so the bug is that this is not turned on by default.
Component: Untriaged → Networking
Product: Firefox → Core
See also: bug 134105.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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