Does anyone do this ? I’ve been using irssi for years but it does not support using a SOCKS proxy which makes it unsuitable for this purpose.

    • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      This is correct indeed. However I should have specified that I already tried using torsocks with irssi, and it doesn’t work:

      Connection to a local address are denied since it might be a TCP DNS query to a local DNS server. Rejecting it for safety reasons. (in tsocks_connect() at connect.c:191)

      Apparently irssi does not play well with torsocks. They mention using ProxyChain-NG, but I’d rather use torsocks with another client, or even better, use a client that supports SOCKS proxies.

      I was just curious to know what other people might be doing :)

  • pneumapunk@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I played with this briefly a while back, and I think both weechat and hexchat worked okay through a SOCKS proxy.