[FoRK] Poisoned DNS on the increase

[Andy Armstrong]

On 18 Feb 2008, at 21:57, Lucas Gonze wrote:
>> 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.

The browser will look up the name of the proxy using local DNS but it  
won't attempt to resolve the target hostname I don't think. I could  
plausibly be talking out of my arse though :)

I assume it must work this way because proxies are usable in  
environments where there is no DNS.

> 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. :*(


You want an SSH invocation that does it?

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten