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ssh -D “*:8080” host This fires up a SOCKS proxy on port 8080. I use it all the time within Firefox. Legendary OG VPN. It’s handy for nefarious use cases, but
by whalesalad 3y ago
ssh -D “*:8080” host
This fires up a SOCKS proxy on port 8080. I use it all the time within Firefox. Legendary OG VPN.
It’s handy for nefarious use cases, but I also use it to access rmq dashboards on non-public networks in AWS.
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- _joel 3y agoYou can use this with socksify[1] to make any application SOCKS capable too. It was a godsend in days of old, for me. [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/socksify https://linux.die.net/man/1/socksify
- andrewshadura 3y agoAlso tsocks
- jwilk 3y ago"-D 8080" is easier to type, and listens only on localhost, which is likely what you wanted anyway.
- oarsinsync 3y ago> Legendary OG VPN We had actual VPNs (that would also be blocked) long before OpenSSH included -D as an option. I remember having to do multiples of -L in order to be able to successfully download a file over FTP through an SSH tunnel. Fun times. -D made life so much easier once that arrived.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> [...] FTP through an SSH tunnel. Fun times. -D made life so much easier once that arrived. Hopefully also SFTP? Security was nice, but the real win was running like a normal application on a single port.