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Re: broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

  • From: Carl Karsten
  • Date: Sat Feb 03 14:32:09 2007

Sure I could route dns queries out through a ssh tunnel but the
latency makes this kind of thing unusable at times.

instead of an ssh tunnel, how about simple port forwarding?

/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1

And then whatever it takes to forward 127.0.0.1:53 to a dns that is listing on some other port?

hmm, I think running a local caching dns was mentioned, but the parts that may have been un-verified:

man named

       -p port
              Listen for queries on port port. If not specified,  the  default
              is port 53.

man named.conf
everywhere there is an address, there is also the option to specify port: ( ipv4_address | * ) [ port ( integer | * ) ]


Carl K