On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:14:01 am Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >if I: > > > >ssh -fND localhost:6000 somebody at 192.168.56.5 -p PORTNUMBER > > > >from computer "A" to computer "B" [B = 192.168.56.5] then I can set the > > SOCKS proxy for e.g.: Firefox to use "localhost:6000" on computer "A". > > Ok. I can surf the web through "B". > > > >But: > >- Can anyone sniff the traffic of "A"? [e.g.: computers on same subnet as > > "A"] Like DNS requests? - I think no, but I'm not sure :O > > Sure, that possible if your name resolution traverses a network path > interceptable by the guy sniffing. > You can tell firefox to use the socks proxy for DNS requests as well by typing about:config in the url bar and setting "network.proxy.socks_remote_dns" to true. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091205/8f4277ae/attachment-0004.html>