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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