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Need to set up a proxy on my home machine to access from school

yukichigai

yukichigai

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My university has decided to completely block all IRC, period. The thing is, I actually use IRC -- believe it or not -- for chat. In the past I was able to get online from school using open proxies found on a few of the open proxy lists, but the networks I like to frequent have gotten wise. Now it's apparantly okay if I set up my own passworded, private proxy, but I have no clue where to start. I don't know what software to use, how to set it up to work with my router, or anything. I have a dyndns.org account so getting to my computer won't be a problem, I just need to know how to set up the proxy.

So, where do I start?
 
Erm, not what I was talking about. I don't want to remotely control my computer, I just want to set it up as a proxy server.

Besides, I already know of the wonders of VNC. It's how I update my Tribes Server from downstairs. ^_^
 
Me bad how come I did not know that you know about VNC, really silly of me.:shocked:😉

When you use VNC you only use port 5900 so you can do Chat by Remote control.

:sun:

 
Chat by remote is far too bandwidth intensive to do at school. The uni also has some annoying anti-bandwidth-whore provisions to their policies.

I need an actual proxy. HTTP, SOCKS4/5, whatever, but it needs to be a real proxy.
 
No offense, but have you heard of google. There's dozens of PC based proxies out there that you could install. The most powerul is Squid, but there are many others that are more basic and might be better for your needs. A google search for "windows proxy server" matched a lot, including several software sites like Tucows that list dozens for download.

- G
 
Google doesn't give me the advice of folks here on which ones to stay the f%$# away from and which ones are good. That, and all the free the programs I found when I did a google for "proxy server" were for internal, LAN use only. Dunno why adding "windows" would change the results, but meh, such is google.

K, so Squid... got it. Any other general advice?
 
Not that you'd care, but:

1> The organization whose security you are apparently trying to bypass will likely know that you are going through a proxy.

2> That organization will likely kill your connection.


FWIW

Scott


 
I've used open proxies before and my connection has never been killed. All they care about is stopping people from using Fservs and such, but since they're lazy they simply decided to block all IRC access rather than blocking DCCs transfers. As long as I don't use a bunch of bandwidth -- which I don't plan on doing -- I should be fine.

As far as the IRC servers I connect to, I've had a talk with the IRCOps running the servers. They don't like open proxies but are fine with me using a personal proxy server or paid proxy service. As I'm a college student with no money my only option is to set up my own proxy.
 
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