Comments on: SOCKS5 Proxy DNS Cache

By: How to use ssh as a proxy server - Holy Shmoly!

How to use ssh as a proxy server - Holy Shmoly! — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:54:35 +0000

[...] had trouble with his socks5 dns while [...]

By: James Davis

James Davis — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:50:10 +0000

FoxyProxy, an extension to Firefox, amongst many other wonderful things allows you to chose whether to perform DNS resolution locally or on the proxy server.

By: lildude

lildude — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:58:42 +0000

Not necessarily. If you’re using Linux, Solaris, OS X, or any other *nix variant, you should find putting “files” before “dns” in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file will cause your localhost to refer to your local /etc/hosts file before DNS (except for Sendmail, but that’s a completely different can of worms ). I’m not sure how Windows works, but I’m sure there’s a similar method of forcing it to query your hosts/lmhosts file before DNS.

By: Christoph Voigt

Christoph Voigt — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:43:55 +0000

Good to see you discovered this evil trap too

By: erik

erik — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:22:01 +0000

alert(“hah”)

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:24:59 +0000

That is a really nerdy post title! I’m glad I only semi-understand what you’re talking about.

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:15:27 +0000

Googling a technical problem and finding the answer on your own blog is simultaneously humbling and thrilling. Also creepy.