broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

Sun Feb 4 06:59:52 UTC 2007

At 04:58 PM 4/2/07, Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st> wrote:
 >> * 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.
 >The flaw here is that DNS operates over 53(UDP), last time I 
checked >SSH doesn't do UDP port forwarding?

At the risk of stating the obvious ...

Whats wrong with using an OpenVPN tunnel with appropriate acls ?
(It works for me !)