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Re: broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter J. Cherny)
Sun Feb 4 02:28:39 2007

Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:59:52 +1100
To: "nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Peter J. Cherny" <peterc@luddite.com.au>
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At 04:58 PM 4/2/07, Trent Lloyd <lathiat@bur.st> wrote:
 >> * Set up the profile, to your house/work/etc, of your favorite SSH
 >> client to forward port 53 local to port 53 on your remote machine.
 >The flaw here is that DNS operates over 53(UDP), last time I 
checked >SSH doesn't do UDP port forwarding?

At the risk of stating the obvious ...

Whats wrong with using an OpenVPN tunnel with appropriate acls ?
(It works for me !)


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