ssh server as a socks proxy

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+title: "Use your SSH-server as a socks proxy"
+date: 2012-06-09 13:18
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+Sometimes for whatever reason you want a secure internet connection. Maybe because you distrust your local network or your network filter some traffic. Openssh is able to speak the [SOCKS protocol](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS), which does the trick.
+
+Open you ~/.ssh/config on your local machine and add the following lines:
+``` apache ~/.ssh/config
+Host webtunnel
+  HostName domain.tld # replace this with your ip or domain name of your server
+  DynamicForward 1080
+  User myuser # replace this with your ssh login name
+```
+
+next connect to your server like this
+``` bash
+ssh webtunnel
+```
+
+This opens a socks connection on your local machine on port 1080.
+Now you are able to set up every application to use this proxy.
+These are the common required settings:
+```
+Server: localhost
+Port: 1080
+Proxy-Type: SOCKS5
+```
+
+Personally I use [FoxProxy Basic](http://getfoxyproxy.org/) extension for firefox to fast setup a connection, whenever needed.