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  • Today I have installed Tor on my Raspberry Pi and also set it up as a relay. I can monitor tor traffic using arm so it means it is working. My SocksPort configuration is 9050, 192.168.1.187:9050 where 192.168.1.187 is internal IP of my Raspberry Pi. In order to anonymize my browsing traffic on my main windows PC, I configured Firefox to use my Raspberry Pi as proxy on port 9050. When I visit the page https://check.torproject.org/, it says my configuration is successful and I see different IP address. From that point I assume everything should work properly but if I try to browse web sites that are blocked in my country such as YouTube it just does not connect. However if I use VPN I can see those blocked web sites. So could anyone please tell me what is wrong with my configuration? I'm really confused.

  • Answer:

    Despite setting the SOCKS5 proxy in Firefox, I could not view web pages blocked in my country because Firefox was still doing DNS lookup out of my router, rather than through Tor. Asking on the tor-relays mailing list, I learned this solution. Type "about:config" in the address bar, and hit enter. Search for the item "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" and set its value as true. That directs DNS lookup through Tor.

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