network.proxy.socks_remote_dns ignored with system-wide proxy

Bug #248863 reported by Katie
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When I have Firefox configured to "Use system proxy settings", I've specified a SOCKS host in my system's Network Proxy Preferences, and I have Firefox's "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" preference set to "true", Firefox does not use the SOCKS host to perform DNS queries. I expect it to use the SOCKS host to perform DNS queries in this situation.

If I specify the SOCKS host in Firefox's "Manual Proxy Configuration" instead of having it "Use system proxy settings", DNS queries are performed via the SOCKS host as expected. Conversely, in the situation described in the previous paragraph, Firefox makes non-DNS requests via the SOCKS host, as expected, demonstrating that it does recognize the system-wide proxy settings to some extent.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.1 with Firefox 3.0.

In case it's relevant, the SOCKS server I'm using is just a local invocation of ssh -D.

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_4.7p1 Debian-8ubuntu1.2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 15 20:09:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Katie (katie-launchpad) wrote :
Katie (katie-launchpad)
description: updated
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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