Like many people, I tunnel my web-browsing traffic through SSH to my server and out to the internet from there. When I recently installed FoxyProxy in Firefox, my HTTP requests didn’t seem to make it to the internet. I sniffed locally and found that my DNS requests were going to the local DNS servers despite setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true in Firefox. It turns out that FoxyProxy has an option Use SOCKS proxy for DNS lookups in its Global Settings tab which appears to be independent of the Firefox config setting. Enabling this option got my traffic flowing over the proper channel. Thanks, FoxyProxy.
Posts Tagged ‘tunnel’
Thanks, FoxyProxy
Thursday, January 15th, 2009nstx-presentation.tar.bz2
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009May 2008 – DNS Tunnelling, by vom.
Download: nstx-presentation.tar.bz2
gresniff.odp
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009March 2007 – Remote Sniffing via GRE tunnels, by vom.
Download: gresniff.odp
