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by userbinator 4436 days ago
The biggest downside with DNS tunneling is the high latency and low bandwidth - many "responsive" web apps feel like molasses, even long static pages take a surprisingly long time to download, and streaming video/audio becomes almost impossible. Of course it's better than no connectivity as a last-resort; SSH sessions are still quite usable and you can do basic things like email and forums.