Re: reverse SSH tunnels and mediawiki

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_gate.dodgy.net.au)
Date: 11/10/05 

Date: 10 Nov 2005 20:39:02 GMT

On 2005-11-10, Richard E. Silverman <res@qoxp.net> wrote:
> If your web browser supports SOCKS, you may be able to use the
> OpenSSH -D feature -- although this is less useful than it should be,
> since (at least the last time I checked) OpenSSH does not pass name
> resolution through SOCKS.

It's time to check again :-)

OpenSSH has supported SOCKS5 since (I think) 3.7x, and it includes support
for remote host lookups (ie SOCKS5_DOMAIN) if the SOCKS client sends them.

Last time I checked most browsers don't send SOCKS5_DOMAIN requests even
when they're configured to use SOCKS5, though. 

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