What does the socks function of openssh hide?

[Mark Lee]

On Thursday, June 18, 2015 05:59:32 PM Flavien wrote:
> 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.

I was using firefox.

Regards,
Mark
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