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sunknudsen
Asked: 2020-06-24 05:17:38 +0800 CST

Cannot open certain websites when SOCKS 5 DNS proxy is enabled on Firefox

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Using the terminal, I run the following.

ssh [email protected] -i ~/.ssh/admin -N -D 9090

Firefox is configured as follow.

Firefox SOCKS 5

Many websites work just fine, but certain ones fails and the following error is thrown on the terminal.

channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed

My research points to a DNS problem as indicated by running tail auth.log on the server.

error: connect_to ipleak.net: unknown host (Temporary failure in name resolution)

How can I fix this issue?

debian firefox proxy socks

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Thanks to Michael’s suggestion, I narrowed the issue down to DNS.

    Switching from DigitalOcean’s DNS servers to 1.1.1.1 fixed the issue.

    $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1
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