Feb 152012
 

Today I want to just give you a pill, but I’m sure that even if is short this article will save a lot of time to someone who, like me, has this requirement.
Having a machine with Linux and various IP (which can be IPv4 and / or ipv6) and a Squid Proxy Server configure your browser to use that proxy on one of these IP and go out from that server with the same IP and not with the default ip .

This can be useful if you have services that require 1 specific IP to be allowed, or if you want to give the proxy server to different people and still be able to trace what they do.
To achieve this we’ll use the ACL, Squid has very good ACL’s (Access Control Lists) built into the squid.conf file, allowing you to lock down or control the access by names, IP’s, networks, time of day, actual day. Remember however that like every firewall the more complicated an ACL is, the slower Squid will be to respond to requests. Continue reading »

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Jan 282012
 

SOCKet Secure (SOCKS) is an Internet protocol that routes network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 additionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server. Practically, a SOCKS server will proxy TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address as well as providing a means for UDP packets to be forwarded.

As SOCKS (as it was already marked above) transfers all data from a client to a server, nothing adding from itself, from the point of view of a web-server, a socks proxy is a client. Therefore anonymity of this type of proxy servers is really always absolute.

In this article we’ll see how to use redsocks to achieve a SOCKS proxy.
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