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Posted: July 13 2006,15:32 QUOTE
On this computer I've successfully used putty under windows to establish an ssh tunnel/dynamic forward to my home linux server. I've used the ssh -D command from another linux computer (Ubuntu) to successfully setup the dynamic forward (setting the socks proxy as localhost under Firefox preferences) for a Firefox socks proxy.

I can't get it to work under DSL!

I open a terminal, type "ssh -D 4000 homeserver" (I've got the port, and username in my ~/.ssh/config). It will log in just fine to my server, but when I set up firefox to use the socks proxy, it tells me that the "server is taking too long to respond.......".

Any thoughts why it would work fine from this computer using putty and windows, but not under DSL?  

Thanks, Scott
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Posted: July 14 2006,01:42 QUOTE
Ok, I figured out that selecting socks 4 instead of socks 5 in Firefox made it work.

Now I have to figure out why it stops working again when I select the 'network.proxy.socks_remote_dns' value to true in about:config.

Scott
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