On this note does anyone have any open US proxies everyone can use ?? On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Alex Bedard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/03/2010 3:10 PM, Jeremy wrote: >> Michael Sweeney wrote: >> >>> We’ve got several server sin the USA that I would like to use to act >>> as a proxy so we can get some streams here in our Montreal office >>> (example hulu, cbs.com, and the like). >>> >>> How would I go about setting up something like this? Would squid work >>> with RTMP? I tried google and maybe I’m just not forming my search >>> request properly. Would VPN be better? Would something like shorewall >>> do the trick? >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >> VPN is the best method I found. You could try using ssh with the -D >> switch and set FF to use that local socks proxy as well, but VPN is >> easiest and most solid. >> >> The problem is when you only want to proxy some traffic... if you figure >> out the best way to do that, please let us know. >> >> Jeremy >> >> > > I agree with Jeremy. SSH tunneling is the easiest and fastest way to do > a "proxy" on the fly. I use it litterally everyday both at home, school > and public wifis. > > I use an SSH tunnel to a friend's place in the USA to get around Google > Voice's "USA only restrictions", as well as YouTube's "This video cannot > be viewed in your country" messages. > > At school I use SSH tunneling to connect to my CVS server for my school > projects, and as well just to keep my browsing and etc "private". > > In public wifis, I use SSH tunneling to bypass "pay systems" by basicly > SSH'ing to a linux server by IP (thereby bypassing the DNS hacks that > public/paid wifis use to bring you to the pay/login screen) and also to > keep my traffic encrypted in an SSH tunnel since public wifi's are not > encrypted/secure and anybody could use wireshark to capture your logins > and passwords. > > If you are on a Windows system, setting up an SSH proxy/tunnel is very > simple with putty, and other linux, you will find all the required > information under the command "info ssh" or "man ssh". > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >
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