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Re: Moving from 56k modem



 Hi.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:36:37AM +0200, Frederic Marchal wrote:
> On Friday 19 June 2015 11:01:25 Reco wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> 
> >
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Frederic Marchal wrote:
> 
> > > On Friday 19 June 2015 09:24:34 Reco wrote:
> 
> > > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:20:25 -0500
> 
> > > > Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> 
> > > > > Mike McClain wrote:
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> > > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:22:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> > > > > >
> 
> > > > > > When CBS 60 Minutes (or was it Sunday Morning?) did an article on
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> > > > > > security on airlines, trains, etc. They suggested setting up a VPN
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> > > > > > on your system.
> 
> > > > > >
> 
> > > > > > Mike
> 
> > > > >
> 
> > > > > A pointer to an appropriate how-to and .deb in Jessie repository?
> 
> > > >
> 
> > > > A *very* simplistic howto follows:
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> > > >
> 
> > > > autossh -ND1080 <ur_home_here>
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> > > >
> 
> > > > <set iceweasel's proxy to socks4 proxy localhost:1080>
> 
> > >
> 
> > > With iceweasel/firefox, don't forget to change
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> > > network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true in about:config or the DNS
> 
> > > requests will be issued to the local DNS server.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.proxy.socks_remote_dns
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> >
> 
> > Please don't do so. Ssh only provides SOCKS4 proxy, and SOCKS4 can not
> 
> > tunnel DNS requests (or any UDP traffic for that matter).
> 
>  
> 
> According to ssh(1) manpage (see http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ssh+1 or
> your local man 1 ssh), ssh -D supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5.

I stand corrected. Thank you, every day I learn something new :)

Reco


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