[Cialug] OT: Web Based Proxy

Eric Junker eric at eric.nu
Wed Jan 27 16:13:52 CST 2010


On 1/27/2010 4:09 PM, Todd Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Lee Henderson<leemhenderson at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> We have a situation at my day job where a customers ISP is
>> experiencing DNS issues. We need to get them logged into our secure
>> site but they can't get to it from two of their locations. I was
>> thinking of just directing them to a web based proxy (e.g.
>> the-cloak.com) but I simply don't know which are legit and can be
>> trustworty.
>
> Could you give them your IP address?

That won't work if they are using Apache name based virtual hosts. Just 
have them edit their hosts file or use OpenDNS or Google DNS. I think 
Google's DNS server is easy to remember... 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

Eric


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