[Pidgin] #11110: Pidgin appears to leak DNS for Jabber accounts

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Thu Apr 28 19:51:03 EDT 2011


#11110: Pidgin appears to leak DNS for Jabber accounts
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 Reporter:  ioerror                  |        Owner:  deryni
     Type:  defect                   |       Status:  closed
Milestone:  2.8.0                    |    Component:  XMPP  
  Version:                           |   Resolution:  fixed 
 Keywords:  jabber security privacy  |  
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Comment(by ioerror):

 Here's the log:

 (16:55:37) proxy: No environment settings found, not using a proxy
 (16:55:37) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for jabber.ccc.de
 (16:55:37) proxy: No environment settings found, not using a proxy
 (16:55:37) dns: Wait for DNS child 29410 failed: No child processes
 (16:55:37) dns: Created new DNS child 29420, there are now 1 children.
 (16:55:37) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 29420
 (16:55:37) dns: Got response for 'jabber.ccc.de'
 (16:55:37) dnsquery: IP resolved for jabber.ccc.de
 (16:55:37) proxy: Attempting connection to 217.10.10.194
 (16:55:37) proxy: Connecting to jabber.ccc.de:5222 with no proxy
 (16:55:37) proxy: Connection in progress
 (16:55:37) proxy: Connecting to jabber.ccc.de:5222.
 (16:55:37) proxy: Connected to jabber.ccc.de:5222.

 I guess that I should set some ENV variable? That seems like it will cause
 some major confusion for users as it fails open...

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/11110#comment:45>
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