[FoRK] Poisoned DNS on the increase

Lucas Gonze <lucas.gonze at gmail.com> on Mon Feb 18 13:57:07 PST 2008

On Feb 18, 2008 10:57 AM, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net> wrote:
> On 18 Feb 2008, at 18:49, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> > Presumably if you set up a private proxy then the proxy is doing the
> > lookups for the requests it relays and can use a trusted nameserver
> > (probably itself).
>
>
> Actually there's no 'presumably' about it - but s/probably/possibly/ :)

You don't mean the HTTP proxy, do you?  I think the browser will do
DNS out of band.

I have to admit that I haven't yet figured out how to tunnel my HTTP
traffic over SSH when I'm using a public access point. :*(

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