PuTTY: Forwarded connection refused by server: Administratively prohibited [open failed]

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Thu Jan 16 00:49:35 EST 2014


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:
> Yes, OpenSSH uses the standard libc resolver to perform name
> resolution. This is synchronous and blocking, so no other traffic
> is processed while one is in progress.

Note that which side the address is resolved on is under the control
of the SOCKS client. eg, in firefox this is about:config
network.proxy.socks_remote_dns.

The up side is that the client can implement different retry
behaviour.  The down side is that any addrress resolution on the
client side leaks information.

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