What does the socks function of openssh hide?

[Darren Tucker]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
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> I was using firefox.
>

By default Firefox will do the name resolution locally then make SOCKS4
requests with the resulting IP addresses.  You can change that by going to
about:config and setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true, which will
cause Firefox to make SOCKS4A requests which have the un-resolved names in
them, which the SSH server will then resolve.

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