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Forward DNS to Orbot over SOCKS5

See original GitHub issue

Today, users need to manually set DNS Proxy in the app to forward DNS packets to Orbot’s DNS endpoint. Cumbersome.

Instead, Orbot can handle DNS over SOCKS5, and so, use that. Of course let users choose if they’d want to use split DNS and not forward it to Orbot.

Ref #131

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ignoramouscommented, Jun 26, 2022

Send a relative straight forward pull-request to Orbot (hopefully, got the change right): https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/pull/705

Let’s see what they’ve got to say about it. In the meanwhile, we can default to forwarding traffic over localhost:5400 when Orbot is active, I guess?

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ignoramouscommented, Sep 28, 2021

Note that you can set a DNS Proxy (from the DNS Configure page) to forward traffic to local Orbot DNS port.

We should also proxy DoH over Orbot’s SOCKS5 port (DoHoT), ref: https://github.com/alecmuffett/dohot/blob/master/INSTALL.md