Setting Up A Proxy Server At Home

[hihihi8]

Hi guys & gals,

 

I'm completely foreign in this area so please forgive me if there is a preexisting solution to this very problem, but I just can't quite understand most of the things i've found, nor do i know if they are reliable. My current problem is that, at my school, the school's internet service provider has been randomly blocking websites and resources that I find necessary (The "Great Wall" of China). These sites are not blocked at home, which I can confirm (different ISP), So I'd like to find a way to tunnel the data at school through my rig at home in order to get a more stable connection while working on my mac at school. Is there an easy way to do this? thx.

 

PS: I also use astrill, a prepaid proxy server so that I can access google, youtube, etc, but I find that it is unstable at school as well. So the Astrill will also have to be tunneled (I have it on my rig at home).

PS 2: Mind that my work laptop is a Mac and my entertainment Rig is Windows.

[themctipers]

don't forget to set your port to 80 (in case they block anything that isn't 80, which is standard http port)

[hihihi8]

Right now I'm working on a Hotspotted 4G network from my phone which accumulates to about 10USD worth of data per day... 

[hihihi8]

2 minutes ago, themctipers said:

don't forget to set your port to 80 (in case they block anything that isn't 80, which is standard http port)

that goes if I have the tunneling already set up, I guess. How I would set up the tunneling in the first place is my main question

[Jarsky]

You could setup a VPN server which would be the most flexible solution. 

If its just for browsing though, then I actually just create a SOCKS5 proxy through an SSH tunnel to a VM running at home with Linux. 

 

https://www.adamfowlerit.com/2013/01/using-firefox-with-a-putty-ssh-tunnel-as-a-socks-proxy/

 

You do need a static IP for this solution....

[Gargone77]

you probably don't have one, but just for the sake of ideas, I have a Raspberry Pi3 running a couple of services at home.  I installed and configured "dante" a socks5 proxy on it as well.  It's a bit of a pain to get it configured, and to get it to launch on reboots, but once it's set up, it's completely maintenance free.  Been using it for a couple of years now.  Just be aware that having a proxy running could theoretically get you into trouble...  IF someone randomly discovers your ip and port, connects through your proxy, and then proceeds to do some illegal activities, your IP address is the one that is logged.  You'll want to restrict access to only the IP from your school...which is even MORE configuring.

 

BTW, I use it primarily to listen to streaming music while at work, where they use a proxy system to block such services...

[jakkuh_t]

https://github.com/Lozy/danted

[Mikensan]

If you're using your own personal laptop at school, that means you're free to install whatever software you want. I'd suggest keep it simple and use teamviewer or the like. Teamviewer offers the option of tunneling traffic over 443 which shouldn't be blocked. 

 

However if you want to use the school's computers and are not able to install software (or copy executables) then you could look for remote desktop software that uses HTML 5. An example is apache guacamole. 

 

https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

 

 

The issue with proxying is the great firewall likely isn't some cheap solution and is intelligent enough to recognize what you're doing. Ultimately blocking your home IP which would suck.

 

I don't know about the typical rules where you live, but here if you're caught circumventing policy then you lose your rights - just keep in mind if the risk is worth it.