Re: broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

[Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com>]

Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:22:30PM -0800, Lasher, Donn wrote:
>   
> > > If so, how do you configure your client operating system of choice to
> > >       
> > use the novel, un-proxied ports instead of using
> >     
> > > port 53?
> > >       
> > * 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.
> >     
>
> <snip>
>
>   
> > Same type of config works great for HTTP (with squid, and browser proxy
> > settings) etc..
> >     
>
> The flaw here is that DNS operates over 53(UDP), last time I checked SSH
> doesn't do UDP port forwarding?
>
> Cheers,
> Trent
>
>   
Looks like someone already has this exact case figured out

http://zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html