broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

Sun Feb 4 06:54:37 UTC 2007

Trent Lloyd wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:22:30PM -0800, Lasher, Donn wrote:
>   
>>> If so, how do you configure your client operating system of choice to
>>>       
>> use the novel, un-proxied ports instead of using
>>     
>>> port 53?
>>>       
>> * Set up the profile, to your house/work/etc, of your favorite SSH
>> client to forward port 53 local to port 53 on your remote machine.
>>     
>
> <snip>
>
>   
>> Same type of config works great for HTTP (with squid, and browser proxy
>> settings) etc..
>>     
>
> The flaw here is that DNS operates over 53(UDP), last time I checked SSH
> doesn't do UDP port forwarding?
>
> Cheers,
> Trent
>
>   
Looks like someone already has this exact case figured out

http://zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html