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I find my Linode really useful for x11 forwarding to use Firefox in public places, or to get around web filters. Might be worth a mention of how to do this.
by zoba 14y ago
I find my Linode really useful for x11 forwarding to use Firefox in public places, or to get around web filters. Might be worth a mention of how to do this.
- mratzloff 14y agoWrite a blog post.
- zoba 14y agoThough it is late, and I've been out at bars with friends, I made this for you: http://dzoba.com/?p=182 http://dzoba.com/?p=182
- JonnieCache 14y agoWhat is the advantage you see of tunnelling X like that over just tunnelling the network connections with ssh -D?
- montecarl 14y agoNot all of the web browser traffic goes through the tunnel when you set a proxy in the browser. DNS queries for example do not. Flash programs such as video players also connect directly to the remote website and do not use the proxy. If you don't know those two facts you might be leaking way more information than you want on the local network!
- tomku 14y agoFirefox defaults to not proxying DNS, but if you set "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true in about:config, it will happily do so for SOCKS proxies. If you use FoxyProxy (which is pretty damn useful if you proxy over an SSH tunnel regularly), it has a checkbox that enables or disables it per-proxy.
- krzyk 14y agoAFAIK dns queryies can be made to go using proxy (I think its Socks v5 that enables this). I'm using ssh -D and socks v5 setting in my firefox when I need to see website that are blocked by very prohibitive proxy. Why would flash programs bypass proxy? At my work they wouldn't be able to connect it they weren't using proxy.
- mratzloff 14y agoVery interesting. Thanks for writing it up!
- hknews 14y agoThanks for the write up -- I'll try it the next time I travel to China!