Proxy hosting software?

[Animal Co]

Hello everyone!

Me and a classmate are trying our best to bypass our schools security systems. The network here doesnt have many of our favourite sites, like facepunch and such.

We have come to the conclusion that using a proxy would benefit our recesses, by giving us access to these pages and video-games through my home network, with the actual proxy server running off my gaming PC while we are at school between 08:00 and 16:30.

Now, we have tried CC-proxy and other ones like it, but we are having a few problems with the ones we have found since they all run on LAN.

We would like to have a proxy server running on the internet, so that we wont have to use Hamachi to connect to it. We would also like a login system with permissions, so that for example only accounts labelled admin may use PTP files (uttorent).

Both Linux and Windows is fine.

Thank you in advance!

[12voltsdc]

OpenVPN Sounds fitting for the job. [url]http://openvpn.net/[/url]

Or another option is Tor, Slow, but it will get the job done. [url]https://www.torproject.org/[/url]

[Darkimmortal]

Can you run .exes freely?

[nikomo]

SSH server at home, and then use PuTTY.
I used that setup to play Minecraft at my last school.

[Animal Co]

[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;37325932]Can you run .exes freely?[/QUOTE]
Yes, since we have a "private" laptop that we can do basicly what we want with.

[QUOTE=12voltsdc]...[/QUOTE]
That is not really the optimum solution, since we want to host our own proxy server at home for our needs.

Maybe I should add that socks5 (or socks4?) would be the prefered solution since it enables us to play online games?

[Darkimmortal]

Then just put an SSH server up somewhere such as at home and use socks5 over ssh + proxifier

Or set up openvpn but that's considerably more difficult

[Animal Co]

[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;37327780]Then just put an SSH server up somewhere such as at home and use socks5 over ssh + proxifier

Or set up openvpn but that's considerably more difficult[/QUOTE]

Can I use a permission system (accounts) using that?

[MetricMoose]

If you setup something like CC proxy or PHP proxy, all you have to do is open the correct ports on your router and use something like dyndns to keep track of the IP.

Or, you could use my PHP proxy install, I don't use a lot of bandwidth on my server anyways: [url]http://benjeffery.ca/pr0xi/[/url]

[cdlink14]

Are you running linux? Squid is very easy to setup.

[Animal Co]

After some more research from my part, I have concluded that Socks5 is the way to go (mostly because the ability to play games)
benjqvps: I cant use CC-proxy, since it is only running via lan.

[QUOTE=cdlink14;37333696]Are you running linux? Squid is very easy to setup.[/QUOTE]
Does socks5 work on this? Linux is fine.

Does even a program exist that let you host a proxyserver with the same ip on both in and out going connections?

[Nekrietns]

It'd be far far easier to set up OpenSSH on a linux box, or hell even a virtual machine at home and then using puTTY to set up the local tunnel through SSH.

Hell, you could go to shellmix.com and get yourself a free SSH shell from Poland, they're quick as fuck too.

[cdlink14]

[QUOTE=Animal Co;37353929]After some more research from my part, I have concluded that Socks5 is the way to go (mostly because the ability to play games)
benjqvps: I cant use CC-proxy, since it is only running via lan.

Does socks5 work on this? Linux is fine.

Does even a program exist that let you host a proxyserver with the same ip on both in and out going connections?[/QUOTE]

Socks, FTP, SSL, HTTP all work.

And That's basically what Squid does. You show up as being the PC you're tunnelling through.

I have a VPS that uses CentOS and it's basically as simple as this: [url]http://nikhgupta.com/code/installing-squid-proxy-server-on-centos-5-vps/[/url]

[editline]22nd August 2012[/editline]

I would however recommend using a custom port by setting "http_port xxxx" in the /etc/squid/squid.conf

Not exactly required but it adds a bit of security (as anyone who knows your IP can try the default port and get connected).

[Animal Co]

[QUOTE=cdlink14;37355346]Socks, FTP, SSL, HTTP all work.

And That's basically what Squid does. You show up as being the PC you're tunnelling through.

I have a VPS that uses CentOS and it's basically as simple as this: [url]http://nikhgupta.com/code/installing-squid-proxy-server-on-centos-5-vps/[/url]

[editline]22nd August 2012[/editline]

I would however recommend using a custom port by setting "http_port xxxx" in the /etc/squid/squid.conf

Not exactly required but it adds a bit of security (as anyone who knows your IP can try the default port and get connected).[/QUOTE]

Thank you very much! I will try that tonight!

[Darkimmortal]

[QUOTE=Animal Co;37328217]Can I use a permission system (accounts) using that?[/QUOTE]

What kind of permissions?

Imo you're wasting your time setting up squid when you can just use the socks5 system built into ssh

[cdlink14]

[QUOTE=Animal Co;37373721]Thank you very much! I will try that tonight![/QUOTE]

No problem, if you have any issues feel free to message me and I may let you use my proxy server. All I would ask is you don't visit anything illegal or use it for a criminally illegal purpose. Absolutely everything is logged, and if I did find any suspicious activity I would report it to my host.