Use remote DNS when using SOCKS?
MLA
mla at forrussia.org
Tue Jan 16 20:07:50 GMT 2007
When I'm accessing a wireless hotspot with my laptop, I like to use a SSH
proxy tunnel to encrypt my traffic; I've got a couple of email accounts that
don't use SSL/TLS, and besides, who wants someone to be reading over their
virtual "shoulder"? I had never thought much about visiting secure Web sites
(such as checking on my bank account or sending credit card information) when
browsing wirelessly until I read up on DNS poisoning. Fortunately, for
Firefox, there's a solution; in about:config, changing the setting
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to "true" will mean that Firefox will query a
remote DNS through the proxy tunnel. Is there any similar setting in
Konqueror? I'd prefer to use Konqueror when browsing.
Thanks,
:Peter
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