broken DNS proxying at public wireless hotspots

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Use OpenDNS?

- - ferg

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Use OpenDNS?

- - ferg

How can that make a difference when he already said that setting NS in "resolv.conf" does not help.

BTW - personally if name resolution at hotspot is not working (and sometimes even if it is) I connect by ssh to my "home system" using
its public ip address and then tunnel X11 and call broswer and other programs there.

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OpenDNS provides service on other than 53/tcp and 53/udp?

If so, how do you configure your client operating system of choice to use the novel, un-proxied ports instead of using port 53?

Joe

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Use OpenDNS?

Right now, I'm on a swisscom eurospot wifi connection at Paris
airport, and this - yet again - has a DNS proxy setup so that the

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They're not the first provider I've seen doing this, and the obvious
workarounds (setting another NS in resolv.conf, or running a local dns
caching resolver) dont work either as all dns traffic is proxied.

see where it says: "all dns traffic is proxied"... :frowning: