Re: resolving all dns though a binary

xask: Deepak Mishra <xask.linus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No I told you this machine is not running a DNS server so it wont
resolve any internet name !! thats the whole problem .
I want to tunnel all my DNS requests through a proxy server!

Ok. You could make the lookup on the server running squid, and avoid
tunnelling. Add the following line to /etc/network/interfaces (on the squid
machine):

dns-nameservers 123.456.789.012

and then add the squid machine as the nameserver on the client.

I don't see any benefit from tunnelling dns requests, however, if you really
want to tunnel, you will need to configure the resolver to the proxy. I looked
at my resolver, to see if I could find this facility, but it does not appear
to be listed on my version, so you may need to do some research. I did a quick
google, but found nothing that immediately answers your question. However, if
you are using this for http traffic, it appears that the firefox browser can
make use of a remote dns server via a proxy:

in about:config, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true

(I don't know how you tell it which dns server to use though and I don't use
firefox here, so I didn't look at this.)

Regards,

Mark.

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