Wget over torsocks under Tails (unable to resolve host address)

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Hello

I am trying to torsock ‘wget’ but get the following error message:

root@amnesia:~# torsocks wget --no-parent --recursive --convert-links --page-requisites --no-host-directories --wait=1 https://abcd.com

--2025-07-11 18:30:51--  https://abcd.com/
Resolving abcd.com (abcd.com)... 1752258652 PERROR torsocks[15385]: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202)
failed: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘abcd.com’
Converted links in 0 files in 0 seconds.

curl --socks5 127.0.0.1:1080 http://check.torproject.orgcurl: (7) Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 1080 after 0 ms: Couldn’t connect to server

amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo ss -tlnp | grep 9050
[sudo] password for amnesia:     
LISTEN 0      4096       127.0.0.1:9050      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("tor",pid=11745,fd=12))       
LISTEN 0      4096      10.200.1.1:9050      0.0.0.0:*    users:(("tor",pid=11745,fd=15))

What am I doing wrong? Thank’s a lot!

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I have been using torsocks for ages and this last week I have been getting this same error on different machines.

Haven’t figured out what is wrong yet but it looks like something has changed somewhere.

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With the current version of Torsocks installed on Tails 7.7, it works again! :smile:

amnesia@amnesia:~$ torsocks --version
Torsocks 2.5.0

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Isn’t ‘wget’ fine for Tails, do we still need to type in torsocks or torify?