Mary Gardiner answered one of Voytek Eymont’s questions on the SLUG list by referring to the ssh socks proxying post on Ubuntu Blog. I was already familiar with ssh socks proxying, but that page has a good set of comments and links. Summary:
- setup via
$ssh -D 9999 username@ip-address-of-ssh-server, configure web browser socks 5 setting to localhost:9999 (On Firefox: Preferences, Advanced, Network, Settings, Manual, SOCKS Host. FoxyProxy really helps with this – you can setup wildcards to send certain URLs via certain proxies eg for when connecting via a VPN to work) - also secure your ssh traffic by setting network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true in Firefox’s about:config
- and of course there’s also proxychains to secure other traffic or setup tunnels automatically in ~/.ssh/config
- non socks-ifiable programs can use socks via tsocks
- cvs + socks using connect.c (similar to my post on svn over an ssh tunnel)
- another similar article Secure your Wi-Fi traffic using FOSS utilities
