I setup a small xubuntu VM to act as a safe for my wallet. I installed tor, polipo, and vidalia more for fun than anything. I set bitcoind to use the tor proxy and set my browser to use polipo. My browser is able to connect to the tor network fine.
I added the proxy to my bitcoin.conf
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
Bitcoin seems to be using the proxy, but when I look at Vidalia's message log, I see lots of
Potentially Dangerous Connection!
One of your applications established a connection through Tor to "x.x.x.x:8334" using a protocol that might leak information about your destination. Please ensure you configure your applications to use only SOCKS4a or SOCKS5 with remote hostname resolution.
So then I did
sudo apt-get install torsocks
and then I start the daemon with
torify bitcoind -daemon
but I get console warnings and I still get the "Potentially Dangerous Connection!" messages
[user@btc-ubuntu ~]$ torify bitcoind -daemon
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_init() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_query() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_search() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_send() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_querydomain() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_init() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_query() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_search() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_send() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
16:57:35 libtorsocks(2539): The symbol res_querydomain() was not found in any shared library. The error reported was: not found!
Has anyone done this successfully without warning messages?
