For the uninitiated, this isn’t a typical VPN. It’s a DNS tunneling tool – perfect for bypassing captive portals, school/work firewalls, or networks that block everything except port 53 (DNS). SSHMAX wraps your traffic in DNS queries, making it look like ordinary domain name lookups.
This tool encrypts your DNS requests. It runs in the background and caches results locally. sshmax slow dns free
Even on a overloaded free server, changing your local DNS resolver to Cloudflare ( 1.1.1.1 ) will reduce DNS lookup time from ~500ms to ~20ms. For the uninitiated, this isn’t a typical VPN