SOCKS proxy without ssh command

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Currently I create a ssh tunnel using: ssh user@server -D 1234 to use SOCKS proxy. How do I configure server so I can directly connect to socks server?

I want to set firefox socks host to server ip and port, instead of 127.0.0.1 and the port specified with -D parameter.

The `-D` option of SSH makes the SSH server also act as a SOCKS server -- there is no other SOCKS server in the picture. What SOCKS server are you referring to then? — mgorven, May 13 '12 at 05:23

score 16 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 22:22

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You'll need to install and configure an actual SOCKS server on the server, such as Dante, SS5, Delegate or Srelay.

answered Jun 06 '12 at 22:22

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '12 at 02:29

You can create a long-running SSH connection on the server to itself using ssh user@localhost -D 0.0.0.0:1234. You can create a script that verify if this command is running and put it on crontab to ensure if the connection fails for some reason it'll restart the job.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 07 '12 at 03:08

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You could install something like Srelay, a free Socks proxy server software for Linux: http://socks-relay.sourceforge.net/

answered May 07 '12 at 03:08

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