Enabling TOR break local DNS resolution

[questorian]

I was playing with TOR feature and was quite impressed with t the response - I thought it would be much worse than that. Anyway I noticed that all my hosts added to hosts.add no longer get resolved and that is confirmed by NSlookup - when I turn off TOR they are back again.

anyway to have both?

Thanks to Merlin for fantastic software!

 

[hardtotell]

Maybe something is stepping on your /jffs/configs/hosts.add file? Here's a better way to append to /etc/hosts:

/jffs/scripts/hosts.postconf

#!/bin/sh
CONFIG=$1
source /usr/sbin/helper.sh

# append the user hosts file to the firmware hosts file
APPENDFILE="/jffs/scripts/hosts.user"
while read TEXTLINE
do
  TEXTLINE=${TEXTLINE//\"}
  pc_append "$TEXTLINE" "$CONFIG"
done <$APPENDFILE

# append the NTP hosts file to the firmware hosts file
APPENDFILE="/jffs/scripts/hosts.ntp"
while read TEXTLINE
do
  TEXTLINE=${TEXTLINE//\"}
  pc_append "$TEXTLINE" "$CONFIG"
done <$APPENDFILE

 

[questorian]

hmmmmm....I must admit I have no idea what this is doing - but I will give it a try and report back.

Thank you hardtotell for taking time to reply...I though hosts.add was recomended way to add entries to hosts file.

 

[ColinTaylor]

I thought hosts.add was recommended way to add entries to hosts file.

Yes, I'm struggling to see how this is better than hosts.add. It doesn't appear to offer any benefits and is therefore unnecessarily complicated.

If the issue is a corrupted hosts file it would be easy enough to log on to the router and check it for errors. But as the hosts file works OK when TOR is turned off it seems unlikely that that is the problem.

When TOR is active what is the IP address of the DNS server? Is it still the router (192.168.0.1) or has it changed?

What does /tmp/etc/dnsmasq.conf contain when TOR is active?

 

[hardtotell]

My example, which has been simplified, is useful when you have both a list of fixed hosts and a list of dynamically generated hosts that gets appended to /etc/hosts. The DNSCrypt wiki has a wan-start script that overwrites the hosts.add file. Not sure if you are doing anything like that.

/jffs/scripts/hosts.postconf

#!/bin/sh
CONFIG=$1
cat /jffs/scripts/hosts.user>>"$CONFIG"
cat /jffs/scripts/hosts.ntp>>"$CONFIG"