[FoRK] Poisoned DNS on the increase

[Udhay Shankar N]

Lucas Gonze wrote: [ on 05:04 AM 2/19/2008 ]

> > > You can skip the need for a proxy server altogether, SSH has a
> > > built-in SOCKS4/SOCKS5 proxy.
> > >
> > > $ ssh -D 8080 myshell.com
> > >
> > > Then just configure your browser and/or OS to use 127.0.0.1:8080 as
> > > the SOCKS proxy.

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>Any idea about DNS proxying?  That really doesn't seem like an SSH
>function, since SSH is TCP.

To proxy DNS in firefox, go to about:config and set the variable 
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to 'true'. This will cause firefox to 
use the other end of the tunnel for DNS lookups.

Udhay

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