<div dir="ltr">Hi Mr Hornsby, <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ruchirablog.com/how-to-setup-fully-secure-squid-proxy-netflix-pandora-hulu/">http://www.ruchirablog.com/how-to-setup-fully-secure-squid-proxy-netflix-pandora-hulu/</a><br>
<div><br></div><div style>Squid does all kinds of stuff, and I used to use it for logging all kinds of outgoing connections when I was paranoid.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Anyway, a couple things to note. </div>
<div style>-- You can play video over a VM, whether AWS or Microsoft's Azure. So that gives you a semi-affordable desktop option without VPN. </div><div style>-- 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.</div>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>StrongVPN sounds great, except it's a predictable workaround and Netflix probably has it at the top of the list of things to block.</div><div style><br></div><div style>Hope your family in S.Korea gets it working. And when are you coming back to C-Bus? </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Jason Alexander</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Rick Hornsby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com" target="_blank">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I have kind of a unique circumstance -- my sister and her military husband recently moved to South Korea for a 2 year assignment.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there another provider besides StrongVPN who would provide good technical support for a situation like this?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks guys</div></div>
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