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Re: broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots


From: "Peter J. Cherny" <peterc () luddite com au>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:59:52 +1100


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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