What does the socks function of openssh hide?

[Eldon Koyle]

Hi Mark,

On  Jun 18 10:55-0400, Mark Lee wrote:
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> 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?
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I suspect your DNS requests are going across your normal network
connection.  It looks like a lot of browsers require additional
configuration to push DNS traffic over socks:

http://serverfault.com/questions/337791/if-i-am-using-ssh-for-a-socks-proxy-do-dns-connections-go-through-it

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Eldon Koyle
Information Technology
Utah State University
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