SSH Tunneling

[DanHorniblow]

I need to tunnel all of my http traffic coming into to my desktop through a dedicated server that I have.

I can do this by running:

ssh -D 9999 -C root@servername -p port

and then telling fire fox to use localhost on port 9999.

But I also need to tunnel my dns from my desktop through the same server to a public dns service such as google or opendDNS.

I am stuck on how to tunnel the DNS.

Any suggestions?

[gradinaruvasile]

Ummm... Why do you need to tunnel DNS? What prevents you from using it directly?
As a matter of fact, why do you need all this? Routing is done via iptables usually. Ssh is not made for this kind of stuff.

[Lars Noodén]

For just Firefox, you need to set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to true. You can find it if you enter the URI about:config in the address bar.