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

[Will]

Go to whatismyip.com with the proxy disabled and then enabled and watch your
source IP change.

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:48 AM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> 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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