Re: Moving from 56k modem
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:01:25 +0300
Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When network.proxy.socks_remote_dns is set to true, the DNS
> > requests are sent through the SOCKS connection and delivered to
> > your computer at home (which ultimately is sent to your ISP but you
> > already thrust it with that information any way, don't you?)
>
> Please don't do so. Ssh only provides SOCKS4 proxy, and SOCKS4 can
> not tunnel DNS requests (or any UDP traffic for that matter).
>
> Although I agree that un-tunneled DNS requests is a privacy issue
> indeed.
>
I'd go along with that in general, if you're going to use a VPN, use a
proper one. I tunnel the odd TCP stream through ssh for simplicity and
convenience from moderately trusted networks, but to do anything from a
public network, I'd use OpenVPN.
--
Joe
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