![]() It is possible to send DNS traffic through the SOCKS proxy as below but the above alone creates a secure and easily configured) connection. This will enable you to view college – and other – websites as if you were actually sat at frank (which is in a rack here in EECS) but it will NOT hide your DNS requests and it will only encrypt network traffic between frank and your local machine. To determine that the proxy is up go to and confirm that your IP address matches franks IP address (138.37.88.242). Make sure ‘SOCKS v5’ is selected and select the ‘OK’ button to save.Īs long as your PuTTY SSH connection remains connected, your proxy tunnel will be open and you will be able to use the internet through this proxy. In the ‘SOCKS Host’ box enter ‘localhost’ and for ‘Port’ enter ‘31415’ (or whatever you set your SSH Tunnel up with).ħ. Under ‘Configure Proxies to Access the Internet’ select the ‘Manual proxy configuration’ radio button.Ħ. Under Advanced, in the middle of the page, select Network -> Connection -> Settings.ĥ. On the left side of the window, select “Advanced”.Ĥ. With the described setup this page, you can tunnel. Go to “Options” under the right-hand-side menu.ģ. A secure shell (SSH) tunnel consists of an encrypted tunnel created through a SSH protocol connection. Once the tunnel is established, you now need to set up a SOCKS proxy in your web browser.Ģ. This should open and terminal window and you should be prompted to login to frank. You should see ‘D31415’ in the ‘Forwarded ports:’ box.Ħ. Under ‘Destination’ select the ‘Dynamic’ radio button and leave the ‘Auto’ button selected.ĥ. ![]() For ‘Source Port’ enter ‘31415’ (this can be configured to whatever you want, just make sure you remember it).Ĥ. On the left side, in the Category window, go to Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels.ģ. To set this up in Windows you’ll need to download and install Putty – which is a free SSH client for Windows – and follow the instructions below:ġ]Launch PuTTY and enter the “.uk” as the hostname. ![]() If you need to get to college internal websites and this is the case it might be possible to use SSH as a SOCKS proxy (a “poor mans VPN”). There are times (and locations) where outgoing VPN access is blocked. ![]()
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