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Fun fact: if you are running tor and you see the tor exit node and your IP you are doing it wrong! You are leaking DNS requests. Tor goes to great lengths informing you that something is wrong in the logs. This is not thanks to edns, it is thanks to your inability to use the software correctly. Please see:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Preventing...

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>it is thanks to your inability to use the software correctly

I disagree, but have you said it is down to my inability to explain what the problem is, then I agree.

I'm aware of the DNS leaks, and obviously wasn't clear enough and failed to explain what the problem was.

The leak only happens when you run the tor proxy daemon, and your own browser with the appropriate proxy settings.

It's down to the way Firefox, uses the defined proxy for the initial DNS and HTTP requests, but then bypasses it when doing DNS lookups for JS within the initial page loaded.

It doesn't leak DNS lookups made by JS scripts if you use the tor version that includes a mod-Firefox browser.

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