[Ilugc] ssh & firefox

[Arun SAG]

Hi,
>On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil at imsc.res.in>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Note that SOCKS5 does not solve the DNS lookup. So this firefox
> profile will still use the local DNS server for looking up domain
> names. To solve this problem you will need to run a DNS cache and use
> that as your DNS server or run a web proxy at the other end of the
> tunnel and point your firefox to that.
>
> One minor correction, SOCKS5 and SOCKS4a actually resolves dnslookups ,
only SOCKS4 will not allow  DNS lookups.


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