Socks proxy : ssh -ND alternative?

scy

Hi friends.

I'd like to use a machine on the local network as a Socks proxy. I'd like DNS requests to be proxied as well as web traffic. Some caching would be nice.

Is there any alternative to "ssh -ND port user@host"?
Any good software you'd recommend that would be secure and with low memory/cpu footprint?

Thanks!

Bochi

You should take a look at Shadowsocks.

belinik

shadowsocks, running fine on my 64mb box

Nixtren

Can someone tell me the difference between Shadowsocks and a standard SSH socks tunnel? Thanks in advance.

scy

Thanks, seems nice with low footprint, but seems like it doesn't do caching

@Nixtren: I guess it allows you to give socks5 access to someone without giving him/her ssh login - footprint might also be smaller when you have a lot of concurrent connexions.

In my case I'd have been interested in some caching, not sure yet if/how that would be possible.

palme34

@scy Did you find an alternative?

Amitz

palme34 said: @scy Did you find an alternative?

You like necromancing a lot, don't you? This is quite annoying, just to let you know.

doghouch

@Amitz said:

palme34 said: @scy Did you find an alternative?

You like necromancing a lot, don't you? This is quite annoying, just to let you know.

he needs some time in the kool korner

Amitz