Salutations, I was recently using openssh 6.8p1-3 for socks tunelling with a public wifi hotspot. I attempted to watch youtube but was notified that it was not allowed in my area. The socks server I was connected to definitely had the ability to connect to youtube, so I concluded the issue was with the public wifi hotspot. How much does socks tunneling with openssh obscure? Command : ssh -ND 4711 Regards, Mark -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 213 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20150618/232cbe32/attachment.bin>
Hi, What client software were you proxying with socks ? Could it be Firefox ? I was quite surprised once to see that by default firefox did *not* proxy the dns queries through socks. I had to set some advance option to force that. This could explain your situation : the DNS of the public wifi hotspot sent you to youtube servers close to you, not the ones close to your server. Flavien. Mark Lee ecrivait :> Salutations, > > I was recently using openssh 6.8p1-3 for socks tunelling with a public wifi > hotspot. I attempted to watch youtube but was notified that it was not allowed > in my area. The socks server I was connected to definitely had the ability to > connect to youtube, so I concluded the issue was with the public wifi hotspot. > How much does socks tunneling with openssh obscure? > > Command : ssh -ND 4711 > > Regards, > Mark
Hi Mark, On Jun 18 10:55-0400, Mark Lee wrote: <snip>> in my area. The socks server I was connected to definitely had the ability to > connect to youtube, so I concluded the issue was with the public wifi hotspot. > How much does socks tunneling with openssh obscure?<snip> I suspect your DNS requests are going across your normal network connection. It looks like a lot of browsers require additional configuration to push DNS traffic over socks: http://serverfault.com/questions/337791/if-i-am-using-ssh-for-a-socks-proxy-do-dns-connections-go-through-it -- Eldon Koyle Information Technology Utah State University -- BOFH excuse #11: magnetic interference from money/credit cards
On Thursday, June 18, 2015 05:59:32 PM Flavien wrote:> Hi, > > > What client software were you proxying with socks ? Could it be > Firefox ? I was quite surprised once to see that by default firefox > did *not* proxy the dns queries through socks. I had to set some > advance option to force that. > > This could explain your situation : the DNS of the public wifi hotspot > sent you to youtube servers close to you, not the ones close to > your server.I was using firefox. Regards, Mark -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 213 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20150618/9552d8cd/attachment.bin>