What does the socks function of openssh hide?

[Flavien]

Hi,


What client software were you proxying with socks ? Could it be
Firefox ? I was quite surprised once to see that by default firefox
did *not* proxy the dns queries through socks. I had to set some
advance option to force that.

This could explain your situation : the DNS of the public wifi hotspot
sent you to youtube servers close to you, not the ones close to
your server.


Flavien.


Mark Lee ecrivait :
> Salutations,
> 
> I was recently using openssh 6.8p1-3 for socks tunelling with a public wifi 
> hotspot. I attempted to watch youtube but was notified that it was not allowed 
> in my area. The socks server I was connected to definitely had the ability to 
> connect to youtube, so I concluded the issue was with the public wifi hotspot. 
> How much does socks tunneling with openssh obscure?
> 
> Command : ssh -ND 4711
> 
> Regards,
> Mark