Quote from: PerPETualMOtion on June 16, 2013, 11:29 pmHmmm... there's a SOCKS4 and SOCKS5. Checking...From Wikipedia: "SOCKS4a extends the SOCKS4 protocol to allow a client to specify a destination domain name rather than an IP address; this is useful when the client itself cannot resolve the destination host's domain name to an IP address."It's just that the program itself does DNS lookups instead of passing "www.google.com" to the SOCKS proxy for resolution instead. It probably doesn't matter for bitcoin-qt now that I really think about it, LOL... sorry, I was thinking of .onion URLs and not wanting to do IP resolution with your ISP for them :-X