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| login dialog in caption (martin) | 4.1 putty 0.60 socks5 does proxy end resolution by default (martin) | ||
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| The //Do DNS name lookup at proxy end// configuration option allows you to control this. If you set it to //No//, WinSCP will always do its own DNS, and will always pass an IP address to the proxy. If you set it to //Yes//, WinSCP will always pass host names straight to the proxy without trying to look them up first. | The //Do DNS name lookup at proxy end// configuration option allows you to control this. If you set it to //No//, WinSCP will always do its own DNS, and will always pass an IP address to the proxy. If you set it to //Yes//, WinSCP will always pass host names straight to the proxy without trying to look them up first. | ||
| - | If you set this option to //Auto// (the default), WinSCP will do something it considers appropriate for each type of proxy. Telnet and HTTP proxies will have host names passed straight to them; SOCKS proxies will not. | + | If you set this option to //Auto// (the default), WinSCP will do something it considers appropriate for each type of proxy. Telnet, HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies will have host names passed straight to them; SOCKS4 proxies will not. |
| The original SOCKS 4 protocol does not support proxy-side DNS. There is a protocol extension (SOCKS 4A) which does support it, but not all SOCKS 4 servers provide this extension. If you enable proxy DNS and your SOCKS 4 server cannot deal with it, this might be why. ((&puttydoccite)) | The original SOCKS 4 protocol does not support proxy-side DNS. There is a protocol extension (SOCKS 4A) which does support it, but not all SOCKS 4 servers provide this extension. If you enable proxy DNS and your SOCKS 4 server cannot deal with it, this might be why. ((&puttydoccite)) | ||