Good writeup, ssh tunnels are something I can’t live without… Step 9 can be skipped completely if no proxy is needed to be configured. Also don’t forget, doin

Good writeup, ssh tunnels are something I can’t live without… Step 9 can be skipped completely if no proxy is needed to be configured. Also don’t forget, doing all of this still sends the DNS requests in the clear to the usual/old dns server and not through EC2. If the DNS server is also meant to filter and redirect, this can be an issue. To go around that, in firefox you can go to about:config and set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true And for linux folks... you don't need any tools or any more special config... just run the ssh command with switch -D <SOCKS_PORT_NUMBER> and configure firefox or your browser to use that.