// Qt caches DNS entries for a minute, resulting in round-robin (e.g. for chat.freenode.net) not working if several users
// connect at a similar time. QHostInfo::fromName(), however, always performs a fresh lookup, overwriting the cache entry.
if (! server.useProxy) {
- QHostInfo::fromName(server.host);
- }
+ //Avoid hostname lookups when a proxy is specified. The lookups won't use the proxy and may therefore leak the DNS
+ //hostname of the server. Qt's DNS cache also isn't used by the proxy so we don't need to refresh the entry.
+ QHostInfo::fromName(server.host);
+ }
#ifdef HAVE_SSL
if (server.useSsl) {
CoreIdentity *identity = identityPtr();