Socks server, easy way: ssh
dimecres, 28/04/2010 (23:20) per carlesShort article:
I love ssh (really, what a nice piece of software, tunnels, reverse tunnels… and sock servers!):
ssh -D 1080 user@server
Setup your favourite application to use the socks server on localhost, port 1080. ssh will send to “server” the communications, cyphered. And from there to the world.
If your favourite application doesn’t have socks support: install tsocks and wrap your application with a tsocks call:
tsocks application
(you need to setup the server in /etc/tsocks.conf)
Long article:
I wanted to watch from London a basketball match that was broadcasted in the Catalan TV (and Spanish one) but only for Spanish residents.
(més…)
