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Pallav
Pallav

Reputation: 119

proxychains - cannot get wget working

I have configured ProxyChains to use 127.0.0.1:1080 as the only socks server. All the DNS requests are proxied through the above server.

I am able to use Firefox with ProxyChains properly, but there is some issue with wget. Whenever I use proxychains wget it first tries to connect to my university's proxy server and then it tries to connect to my local proxy server.

The output of the command proxychains wget www.google.com is as follows:

ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
--2010-11-26 22:14:38--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving **********... |DNS-request| **********
|D-chain|-<>-127.0.0.1:1080-<><>-4.2.2.2:53-<><>-OK
|DNS-response|: ********** is not exist
failed: Unknown error.
wget: unable to resolve host address `**********'

********** above represents my university's proxy server host name.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9120

Answers (3)

Pallav
Pallav

Reputation: 119

My Problem was resolved after becoming root ("sudo sh") and executing the same command.

Running the command as proxychains sudo wget google.com worked.

Upvotes: 3

leiqin
leiqin

Reputation: 86

in file /usr/lib/proxychains3/proxyresolv

change 4.2.2.2 to 8.8.8.8

or use env PROXYRESOLV_DNS

also you can make proxychains doesn't proxy DNS request,

in proxychains.conf comment the proxy_dns setting

Upvotes: 4

Wesley Rice
Wesley Rice

Reputation: 2831

You may want to try defining your proxy's address with a shell environment variable. There's a brief section in the wget manual on configuring for proxies.

Upvotes: 0

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