[lug] traceroute on forwarded ports plus socks vs port forward

[Dan Ferris]

OpenVPN is your friend in these types of situations.  You can use an 
OpenVPN server to push routes for things around.  It's also a lot more 
reliable that using things like SSH tunnels.

Dan

On 7/6/2011 10:48 AM, karl horlen wrote:
> i'm trying to route local port 80 / 443 locally to an external server 
> so i can browse through it.
>
> is there a way to confirm that i am indeed using those ports?  when i 
> run a tracert (the client is windows and i'm running tracert from cmd 
> aka dos prompt), the hops still route through my dsl provider.  i 
> presume that is the correct behavior since traceroute probably works 
> on a different port other than 80 or 443.
>
> so other than using a packet sniffer, is there a command i can run to 
> prove when i load an url in a browser that i'm actually routing 
> through my remote server via ssh tunnel and not through the hops 
> associated with my dsl provider.
>
> finally, i'm forwarding two local ports, 80 and 443 and am assuming 
> that on a windows box the browser should just find and use these 
> ports.  i've seen recommendations for using a socks proxy to achieve 
> the same result.  i'm trying to understand the difference.  from what 
> i gather, a socks proxy will do the same thing but you only have to 
> set one forwarding which is the socks ip address instead of two (80 
> and 443) in port forwarding method.  but you also have to configure 
> the app, in this case the browser to use the proxy, an additional 
> step.  then the browser / app simply forwards all requests on any and 
> all ports fed to it to the socks proxy port. is this correct?
>
> i guess i'm not sure what the benefits are to using one method vs the 
> other.  since ssh (windows putty) allows you to configure multiple 
> port forwards in one definition, once you set it up, you just have to 
> kick off the connection so it saves you the hassle of enabling 
> disabling socks proxy in your browser config.
>
> so why would i want to use a socks proxy?  i can't think of any
>
> thanks
>
>
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