Re: Tunnel DNS queries

["Ayaz Ahmed Khan" <ayaz () pakcon org>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:31 AM, secrookie () gmail com
<secrookie () gmail com> wrote:
> I am researching on how to tunnel udp DNS queries.
>
>  There are lots of information on how to do this for secure web
>  browsing (ssh/squid, enable remote dns proxy in config: firefox
>  etc..).
>
>  I would like to tunnel all DNS queries from a Linux box via ssh to a
>  remote DNS server.  I looked into port forwarding 53 but was not
>  sucessfull.  As DNS queries are UDP I am not sure if it will work with
>  openssh.  My understanding is openssh tunnel only works with TCP.
>
>  Any input would be appreciated.

Using socat, I have in the past easily managed to serve DNS requests
coming on port 53 by forwarding them to external DNS servers.  I have
not tried routing them enveloped in an SSH tunnel.  Though, for
something as trivial as DNS queries, I don't know why one would want
to do that.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan

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