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.
There are programs which replace the network calls with SOCKS routines. The currently recommended one seems to be: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git
This is correct indeed. However I should have specified that I already tried using
torsockswithirssi, 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 usetorsockswith another client, or even better, use a client that supports SOCKS proxies.I was just curious to know what other people might be doing :)
I played with this briefly a while back, and I think both weechat and hexchat worked okay through a SOCKS proxy.
