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Only for firefox's traffic. There's almost certainly other software on your machine using the network and thus not going through the proxy unless you explicitl
by coherentpony 9y ago
Only for firefox's traffic. There's almost certainly other software on your machine using the network and thus not going through the proxy unless you explicitly tell it to.
- fibers 9y agoenvironment variables
- jffry 9y agoI'm pretty sure you could use https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle though I haven't looked into it (does it proxy DNS? UDP? DHCP? I'm not sure)
- GordonS 9y agoJust a note, it doesn't work with Windows, only Linux and OSX.
- kibwen 9y agoIndeed, I had tunnel vision and was thinking only of web traffic. But at the same time, what software other than web-browsers-connecting-to-HTTP-sites is attempting unencrypted network communcation? If there are any system updaters or package managers trying to do their job over plaintext, that's important for people to know!
- scbrg 9y agoDNS lookups are generally unencrypted, no? w/r to package managers, apt is usually unencrypted. Of course, there's signature validation that makes sure you don't get altered packages, but traffic can be snooped none the less.
- GordonS 9y agoYou can ask Firefox to do the DNS lookup at the proxy end, as long as it supports SOCKS5 (I tunnel from my Windows machine to a remote Linux VPS using PuTTY, and this setup works great)