From 075be61de816ee54f48c8e03cd91fc08f9cfde87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clowwindy Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:19:51 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] add troubleshooting --- README.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a5f3050..2a6b079 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Change proxy settings of your browser into SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:local_port + advanced ------------ @@ -33,3 +34,20 @@ You can use args to override settings from `config.json`. python local.py -s server_name -p server_port -l local_port -k password python server.py -p server_port -k password + + +troubleshooting +--------------- + +* I can only load some websites + Check the logs of local.py. If you see only IPs, not hostnames, your may got DNS poisoned, but your browser hasn't + been configured to let the proxy resolve DNS. + To set proper DNS config, you can simply install FoxyProxy / Autoproxy for Firefox, or ProxySwitchy / SwitchySharp for + Chrome. They will set the config in your browser automatically. + Or you can change network.proxy.socks_remote_dns into true in about:config page if you use Firefox. +* I can't load any websites and the log prints mode != 1 + Make sure proxy protocol is set to Socks5, not Socks4 or HTTP. +* I use IE and I can't get my proxy to work + Since you can't specify Socks4 or Socks5 in IE settings, you may want to use a PAC(Proxy auto-config) script, or + just use Firefox instead. +