ip address - Reliable and legitimate (legal) proxies to rent?

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2014-07
  • Zombies

    I'm looking to purchase access to a single SOCKS4/5 proxy server. I wish to have an origin USA IP address while I travel. I prefer to use a legitimate service, however when I google for this I see a lot of shady looking providers who seem to offer their servers for spam use. I just want to bypass IP restriction rules, which in my opinion are lame attempts to say "hey, you're not part of the american demograph (I am), so this doesn't pertain to you (it does)".

    Basically I'm shut out of a lot of services I should have access to (Windows online Update, I even want to give them money and pay for the upgrades and they still say no).

    Is there a type of proxy service I can buy? Would SOCKS be the right one?

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  • William Hilsum

    Honestly, the best solution is to find a cheap VPS from one of many different suppliers and simply install proxy software on it.


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  • ariefbayu

    I've created a ssh proxy to server by invoking this command:

    ssh -p1234 -D1234 someuser@someserver

    With this, I'm able to load certain pages from my firefox, however, the one who need to access that particular sites is my colleague. But, they don't have ssh akses to that server. Now, I want her to be able to access the tunnel which is opened on my laptop. How do I enable that? Because, if I set the proxy on her browser to myip:1234, it's always connection refused!.

    TIA.


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  • user42806

    Due to security issues, ssh -D will only listen on lo0. You must bind to eth0. You could also listen on all NICs by giving -g flag:

    ssh -g -p1234 -D1234 someuser@someserver

    but remember this will let ALL people use your PC as proxy :(