[HN Gopher] ProxyChains
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       ProxyChains
        
       Author : ithkuil
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-12-04 23:53 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (proxychains.sourceforge.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (proxychains.sourceforge.net)
        
       | encryptluks2 wrote:
       | For a more modern client, there is proxychains-ng. However, if I
       | recall even that is sort of outdated and there are now better
       | alternatives.
        
         | boomskats wrote:
         | > better alternatives
         | 
         | Can you recommend any?
        
           | encryptluks2 wrote:
           | I don't recall what I've used, but I think it was something
           | available in the Arch or Alpine repo. I typically try to
           | avoid solutions that operate on the process, because detached
           | processes may not actually use the proxy. Tinyproxy is one of
           | my favorites for this. However, an alternative to
           | proxychains-ng is tsocks. If you're looking for VPN
           | solutions, then vopono is great.
        
             | ithkuil wrote:
             | https://monkey.org/~dugsong/dsocks/ for bsd/macos
        
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       | lolpython wrote:
       | I used this to tunnel my traffic over SSH in high school. That
       | allowed me to visit blocked websites like Reddit or YouTube. The
       | school IT administrators had already blocked common VPN
       | providers.
        
         | noxvilleza wrote:
         | Yeah same with me in university. They eventually started rate-
         | limiting each SSH connection to ~50kB/sec, so I ran a bunch of
         | separate SSH connections, made them as upstreams on a tinyproxy
         | - and then used proxychains to force apps to use that tinyproxy
         | tunnel (a lot of apps back then didn't allow you to configure a
         | proxy).
        
       | guilhas wrote:
       | Anyone using this daily? Could example a use case?
        
         | kevinsundar wrote:
         | I've used this as a light weight way to send traffic from a cli
         | app through TOR.
        
         | fock wrote:
         | I use it to patch in network to User-NS-containers with a
         | separate network namespace. Run danted on the host, then socat
         | to a unix-domain-socket, bind mount that and then proxychains-
         | ng.
        
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