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How to do DNS through a proxy in Firefox?

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I am using Firefox 3.5.7 with FoxyProxy. I have an ssh tunnel forwarding 8080 through to an HTTP proxy server on the other end. With FoxyProxy, I send work traffic direct but everything else goes through the proxy server. DNS lookups, though, still go to work's DNS servers for resolution. Is there …

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In firefox type this in your address bar: about:config Click that you promise to be careful. In the filter textbox, type: proxy Find the preference name called network.proxy.socks_remote_dns. Double click it to set it to true. Firefox will now proxy…

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