SOCKS

[Doug Hunley]

forgot to mention that I also run my sshd on port 443, which is never blocked ;)

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:33, Doug Hunley <doug.hunley at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only time I've had occasion to use a socks  proxy, I've done so
> using ssh tunnels instead ;)
>
> http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 17:28, Jerry McBride <jmcbride at mail-on.us> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm just getting around to look at SOCKS. I've never had an instance to use
>> it and if anyone else here has the SOCKS experience, I have a question to
>> ask.
>>
>> It seems to me that whatever you can do In SOCKS, you can achieve in
>> iptables. If this is the case, what is the compelling reason for having a
>> SOCKS proxy?
>>
>> Also, people say that SOCKS is the way to get around firewalls.... But don't
>> you have to open a port in your iptables to let SOCKS get through?
>>
>> Just curious.
>>
>>
>> Thank you...
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