what to want in a socks5 proxy daemon and its host OS [SOLVED]

poopship21 · 2009-08-04 01:44:52

i am looking for a socks5 proxy with straightforward configuration and good performance. it will be hosted on one of two available hosts (i686 or x86_64). id like to hear any suggestions from the community on Best Socks5 Proxy. that includes both theoretical and practical considerations of the daemon itself and also the suitability of host operating systems including Linux, *BSD, and *Solaris.

thanks in advance!

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fukawi2 · 2009-08-04 04:26:36

Well you could run Squid over Linux on a 386 with 16mb ram (probably) but if you're setting this up for a company of 5,000 people, then it probably won't run too well...

What are you expecting to do with this proxy? What level of maintenance do you want it to require? What is the level of expertise/skill set of the people who will be maintaining it? These will all influence the package and the O/S recommendations...

cactus · 2009-08-04 04:32:32

ssh can run as a socks proxy.
two quick google results:
http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh … -browsing/
http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archive … ssh_socks/

poopship21 · 2009-08-05 02:04:08

fukawi2 wrote:

What are you expecting to do with this proxy? What level of maintenance do you want it to require? What is the level of expertise/skill set of the people who will be maintaining it?...

i am looking for a non-caching (small disk footprint) web/dns proxy requiring low maintenance (logrotate, etc). maintainers (me) have some experience editing shell scripts but little systems knowledge (i still go here alot: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780137 … sted=other). however i would prefer something with a big learning curve and excellent community documentation (such that experience gained in the use of this tool is generally useful) to something that requires less investigation and therefore provides less exposure to the system. performance is less important than [elegant] implementation (less of a concern since the two are often directly related). i know that i am being quite vague; this is not intentional, just a consequence of my ignorance.

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anrxc · 2009-08-05 11:03:59

Well you could run Squid over Linux on a 386 with 16mb ram (probably) but if you're setting this up for a company of 5,000 people, then it probably won't run too well...

Did you ever run Squid as a SOCKS proxy?

poopship21, take a look at Dante http://www.inet.no/dante/

Ruckus · 2009-08-05 11:06:40

cactus wrote:

ssh can run as a socks proxy.
two quick google results:
http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh … -browsing/
http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archive … ssh_socks/

I second using dynamic SSH tunneling as a proxy.

poopship21 · 2009-08-05 13:53:42

cactus wrote:

ssh can run as a socks proxy.
two quick google results:
http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/12/08/ssh … -browsing/
http://www.dribin.org/dave/blog/archive … ssh_socks/

i just checked the manpage on ssh and sure enough the "-D" option supports socks5, which means my dns requests are safe, which means ssh is good. ssh has always been good to me. i bet those people at openssh are really cool. maybe i should read about openbsd (dust off yee olde qemu), its probably nice or else those cool people wouldnt work on it. thanks again for all the suggestions!

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ckristi · 2009-08-05 14:08:02

I think ss5 is a pretty straightforward socks proxy. I don't know if it's still maintained, but you may found more about this socks proxy here:
http://ss5.sourceforge.net/

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