Yay SOCKS!
February 3, 2005
Well, I got the SOCKS thing figured out. It seems that current builds of Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and IE (?!?!) don’t support doing name resolution on the remote side of a SOCKS proxy. They all try to resolve the name locally, then use SOCKS for the actual connection itself. That just does’t make sense to me. heh.
Anyway, after digging around online for a few hours I found a two-year Bugzilla thread which discusses this. It finally looks like it’s coming around. So, I grabbed the most recent Mozilla nightly and… What do you know… There’s a checkbox for the option and it works great. Whee!