F11 firefox with proxy still sends host name lookups

Patrick Mansfield patman at aracnet.com
Tue Jun 16 00:24:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:15:39PM -0400, Mauriat wrote:

> > Any ideas what is sending the requests?
> >
> > Is this because of some new firefox or other new feature?
> >
> > I disabled the firefox "block reported attack sites" and "block reported
> > web forgeries", with no change.
> 
> I am curious, if you go to 'about:config', what is set for
> "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" ?

It's false, I set it to true and got the same behavior.

I thought it was only for SOCKS clients (though I don't really know how
those work, and I'm not using one).

-- Patrick Mansfield




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