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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Odinn Cyberguerrilla <odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Anyone still using SOCKS4?
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 08:47:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJDPnz-JYbhTZw2cLVb1QrerrHVim9GRBdgVPsOeTLFJ+Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f55608991d5377117ecf1728cd8db0c.squirrel@fruiteater.riseup.net>

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Odinn Cyberguerrilla
<odinn.cyberguerrilla@riseup•net> wrote:
> Wait, I thought SOCKS4 was supposed to help somehow in terms of prevention
> of leaking of information?

SOCKS4a (unlike SOCKS4) supports doing DNS lookups on the server, but
it is not supported by bitcoin core. So it is not part of this
discussion.

And SOCKS5 can do all of that just as well. But if you feel like
contributing SOCKS4a support that's fine with me.

Wladimir



  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-07  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-11 15:39 Wladimir
2014-07-04  7:15 ` Wladimir
2014-07-04  7:28   ` Drak
2014-07-07  6:34   ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla
2014-07-07  6:47     ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-07-07  6:54       ` Odinn Cyberguerrilla

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