[colug-432] vpn tunnel or http+tcp forward proxy setup?

[Jason]

Hi Mr Hornsby,

http://www.ruchirablog.com/how-to-setup-fully-secure-squid-proxy-netflix-pandora-hulu/

Squid does all kinds of stuff, and I used to use it for logging all kinds
of outgoing connections when I was paranoid.

Anyway, a couple things to note.
-- You can play video over a VM, whether AWS or Microsoft's Azure. So that
gives you a semi-affordable desktop option without VPN.
--   If you run the Squid proxy on AWS, Azure or the like, you're going to
pay by CPU hour and Network transfer also (maybe both the in and out == 2 x
per byte).  So that seems like a fun but pricey way to do it.

StrongVPN sounds great, except it's a predictable workaround and Netflix
probably has it at the top of the list of things to block.

Hope your family in S.Korea gets it working.  And when are you coming back
to C-Bus?

-Jason Alexander


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have kind of a unique circumstance -- my sister and her military husband
> recently moved to South Korea for a 2 year assignment.
>
> The problem is that sites like Amazon and Netflix are refusing to serve
> them properly (or at all in the case of Netflix) because they have an
> non-US ip address.  They have a StrongVPN account, but have been having a
> hard time getting it to work on the Linksys router I gave them with ddwrt
> and strongVPN configured.  Oddly, the setup worked here in the states.
>  They said that they tried getting the router VPN working and just never
> could, but got a single computer configured to log into the VPN.
>
> They're ready to give up, but I had two more ideas.  The first is to
> purchase one of the pre-built strongvpn routers, along with the support
> that comes with it.  I've given them every suggestion I could think of to
> try, so I'm pretty much out of options to help them directly without going
> over there and messing with it.  This option is kind of expensive.
>
> The other is what if I set up a forward(?) proxy here in the states on my
> Google Fiber connection?  It would mean configuring each client device
> individually (ie slingplayer, browsers, etc) which would be a pain, but it
> might work?  One of the downsides here is that if my IP changes, all of
> their devices have to be reconfigured.
>
> I understand how to set up haproxy as a reverse proxy for load balancing,
> but I really don't know much about squid for forward proxying.  Is squid
> capable of forwarding arbitrary tcp traffic, or does it have to be http?
>  Is there something better than squid?  Has anyone set anything like this
> up, or happen to have an example config or a blog post about how they
> configured it?
>
> I know how to use ssh to act as a SOCKS5 proxy, but that won't work here.
>  A couple of the devices that they need to connect are iOS, Windows, and
> things like an AppleTV (Netflix app) -- so obviously a router-level
> solution would be best.
>
> Is there another provider besides StrongVPN who would provide good
> technical support for a situation like this?
>
> thanks guys
>
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