#Foxyproxy ssh tunnel putty how to#

Kees Cook tells us how to tunnel DNS lookups, so snoopy folks can’t even figure out what your are browsing, and the evil ones can’t DNS-phish you.I use it for the very unromantic reason that I don’t want some aspiring cracker to sneak up on me when I am in public. You can misuse this technology to circumvent paranoid browsing firewalls, even to pretend you are wherever your ssh server is located – so you can work around country-based blocks etc. If any of them, you can look into using proxychains( there’s an Ubuntu package). Other applications (like email clients) may also support SOCKS proxies. In addition, all outgoing and incoming data for the browsing session will be encrypted since it passes through the SSH connection. Now when you browse, all the connections you make to websites will seem to originate from the server to which you SSH-ed. The proxy is, of course, “localhost”, with the port 9999. Now all you have to do is set the preference in Firefox to use a SOCKS proxy. In addition, this will create a SOCKS proxy on port “9999” of your computer. Needless to say, you (username) must have an ssh account on the server. $ssh -D 9999 of course connects you to the server specified by “ip-address-of-ssh-server”.

You can use the “-D” flag of openssh to create a SOCKS proxy. The wonders of ssh never cease to amaze me! This happened to me recently and I stumbled across a neat feature of openssh (the ssh client on everyone’s computer). When you are at the coffee shop, or at a conference, and you are not sure that you want to send all your data over the wi-fi network in plaintext, you want a secure tunnel to browse. SSH Tunnel + SOCKS Proxy Forwarding = Secure Browsing DecemPosted by Carthik in applications, commands, guides, servers, ubuntu.