Comments on: Building a SOCKS5 Proxy with a Digital Ocean Server to Bypass UK Internet Filters

By: DOWNFOREVERYONE.COM

DOWNFOREVERYONE.COM — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:18:03 +0000

Looks like great stuff! I’m not in the UK, anyway got an idle DO droplet , so why not to try it out? One never knows

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By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:02:19 +0000

That’s correct that no additional software is needed. This method isn’t exactly a proxy in the same way that Squid is a proxy.

You are in effect creating an encrypted tunnel between your local machine and the DigitalOcean droplet that allows traffic ingressing on the local port you specify to egress from the droplet as if it was originating from the droplet.

If the terminal closes then the tunnel is also closed.

By: amar

amar — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 03:58:58 +0000

So, there’s basically no need to install anything in order to get a SOCKS proxy server on DigitalOcean? I mean I had to install Squid to have HTTP proxy.

Besides, what happen when I close the terminal? What to do if I want a socks proxy server running all the time on my DigitalOcean droplet?