Socks Proxy

[JonnoTheDev]

Has anyone used a shared hosting web server and sucessfully setup a socks proxy on it?

Would like some info on doing this to relay internet traffic from a local pc through the proxy.

[steviewdr]

If you can ssh into the server, you can use PuTTY to act as a socks server.

 

First hit in google: http://vectrosecurity.com/content/view/67/26/

[JonnoTheDev]

OK, what if I want various machines in my network to use the web server as a proxy. They could be linux, mac, windows machines. Can I not use the IP address of the web server as the proxy address?

 

The issue is, we have many pieces of software on different machines across our network that perform data mining operations. The different pieces of software use proxy servers to hide our true IP. We have many proxy server IP addresses stored in a database which each piece of software can connect to and pick a server to use. It is becoming expensive buying proxy server addresses, so my idea was to get a load of cheap servers and set them up as proxies. Their IP addresses could then be added to our database of proxies.

[tomfmason]

Can I not use the IP address of the web server as the proxy address?

 

no. The proxy address would be a local one(localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc).

 

using linux or mac you could: ssh -D port user@host

 

you would then use 127.0.0.1:port for your proxy address

 

 

[JonnoTheDev]

Then this is not what I am looking for. I need to have proxy servers through public IP:port just as:

http://www.samair.ru/proxy/type-01.htm

not having to setup each local machine. I will have to find out how to setup a cheap server as a proxy so I can just use its ip in any proxified software.

Proxy server addresses on lists as above are unreliable, they get battered and are often offline. Similar issues with using the TOR network. Private proxy addresses are expensive with the numbers we use.

[steviewdr]

apt-get install squid

 

Job Done.

[JonnoTheDev]

Squid, or any proxy server software really. However the servers im looking at are cheap as chips so they aren't going to be letting you install software. I maybe fighting a losing battle here.

[tomfmason]

you can get a cheap vps for less than $10/month. I imagine they wont have a problem with you installing squid

[JonnoTheDev]

Yeah, thing is though I need the public ips to be location based so I can't just buy a load of servers in the US. UK servers are not so cheap. I will have to hunt around.

[tomfmason]

Does it have to be an ip address? If you can use a domain you could go the hackish route and add that domain to your hosts file on the local system. Then in your db add the domain name and the local socks port for the proxy. For example:

 

#usage this_script domain local_port user@host 
echo 127.0.0.1 $1 >> /etc/hosts
ssh -f -D $2 $3

 

an example usage would be bash script.sh foo.com 8000 user@serverip

 

then you could use the foo.com domain and 8000 for the port.