[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#1080449: dig no longer works over tor; hangs and never times out

[Manny]

> Since the strace indicates the program gets stuck inside jemalloc,
> I’ve tried to recompile dig with and without jemalloc and the
> aforementioned behavior doesn’t happen when BIND 9 is not compiled
> with jemalloc.

I just tested with a torsocks alternative and there was no issue with
dig doing MX lookups over tor, which further suggests the problem is
with torsocks. However, I must say I did not touch torsocks
recently. In fact, I have pinned torsocks version 2.3.0-3 because bug
1069949 broke torsocks version 2.4.0-1.

Version 2.3.0-3 of torsocks still functions for other applications. It
only quit working for dig. So apparently dig uses some network
facility that other apps do not which was recently broken in torsocks
despite torsocks being pinned to version 2.3.0-3.

MX lookups by way of torsocks+dig only broke relatively recently. I
suppose a package I upgraded or installed recently must have some kind
of interplay with torsocks or dig, though nothing looks obvious in the
apt logs.

Anyway, whoever tries to tackle this problem: if you cannot reproduce
it, try torsocks version 2.3.0-3 with bind9-dnsutils version
1:9.18.28-1~deb12u2.

Sorry for the erroneous report against bind9-dnsutils.