I have setup squid proxy on an ubuntu server with DB authentication. However, whilst connected to the proxy, if I visit it still shows my ACTUAL ip address. How can I configure Squid to hide my IP and to hide the fact it's using squid.
EDIT: Thanks all for your advice and suggestions. I had tried several of the suggestions from the community but ended up scrapping most of them. Some that I tried include: Cloudflared tunneling (scrapped because it didn't work well with my reverse proxy), Using Cloudflare as a proxy (scrapped because my use-case (game servers/media streaming) was against the Cloudflare TOS for free tier) and sslh tunneling (couldn't get it working, IDK what I did wrong).
My final config ended going with using a VPS and IPtables to forward all traffic through a Wireguard tunnel to my internally hosted reverse proxy. This works perfect and though I haven't stressed it yet, I have gotten all of my services I wanted to be accessible from the outside w/ HTTPS and LetsEncrypt certs. So mission accomplished! For those wanting to replicate this down the line I used THIS GUIDE. For those following the guide note I had to change conntrack --cstate with state --state when using IPTables.
Hope this helps someone and happy self-hosting!
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ORIGINAL POST: Hello all. I am new to networking (only been doing it for a couple of months studying for network plus) and have just set up my first home lab environment. I want to be able to share access with friends and family (next cloud, jelly fin, photo prism, etc) as well as I want to run several game servers (Minecraft, unturned, Terraria etc). I'm not too worried about friends and family but for the much more public game servers, I want to hide my IP address.
I need SSL to be fully working between the client and the VPS as well as from the VPS to my home network. I don't care so much after that but it would be nice to be able to access my services from the same domain name (PiHole). Is it even possible to forward traffic through a single port on my firewall and then use a reverse proxy internally to reroute traffic? Or am I just completely crazy?
Thanks for message. This is a known bug / feature request: When running piwik proxy php to hide footprint, IP address is not set correctly when the website being tracked is behind proxy Issue #2900 matomo-org/matomo GitHub
I have configured the objects and also the Hide NAT as shown. My upstream "user" says it's not working and that i need to configure proxy ARP for these IPs. I see this traffic going out to the internet OK.
Were the 8 NAT addresses "plucked" from the so-called dirty segment between the firewall's external interface and your Internet perimeter router? If so proxy ARPs are needed but assuming "Automatic ARP Configuration" is checked on the NAT Global Properties it should create them for you when you use the Automatic NAT setup (which is what you are doing). Run command fw ctl arp to see what addresses the firewall believes it needs to provide proxy ARP service.
If the 8 addresses are not "plucked" and there is a different transit subnet in use on the dirty segment, proxy ARP is not needed but then these 8 addresses need to be properly routed inbound to your firewall via the transit subnet. The Internet perimeter router needs a static route for these addresses/subnet pointing to the outside IP address of the firewall. This assumes of course that these 8 addresses are actually being correctly routed to you over the Internet in the first place, to confirm try to traceroute to one of these addresses from somewhere else on the Internet outside the firewall. Does it seem to be coming your way? How far is it getting to you?
What I mean is, suppose you want to visit www.wikileaks.org over your SSH-SOCKS proxy. What your browser will almost certainly do is use regular DNS to resolve www.wikileaks.org to an IP, but then tunnel all traffic to that IP over the proxy. So your ISP (or a sniffer) could tell that you wanted to visit wikileaks.org, but not what page you wanted to see (or saw).
Beyond this, you have limited options, that often result in half-backed hacks. You might be able to get a kind of reverse-proxy setup for just the BOSH / HttpBind endpoints, but your mileage will vary.
The Ignite Realtime community does not produce software to act as a proxy. You might get somewhere with setting up generic reverse proxies (for BOSH) or things like Metre for server-to-server traffic - but to be frank: these add more complexity than fix generic security issues.
Hi everyone, I have a stupid question about changing colour (or hide) PROXY BADGE in project panel icon view mode... It has the same colour like USED CLIP BADGE near it and now it's so hard to keep track of used clips at a glance.
We try to use the new etc.clientlib proxy servlet that came in AEM 6.3 in our AEM 6.4.3 installation and I have an issue with the JS and CSS files not being loaded properly, all URLs give me a 404 error if I am not logged into the publish server.
We had a /etc/map configuration where we hide the /content path on the publishing servers, the problem was that this caused the url to be rewritten during the call sequence to the publish server, hence /etc.clientlib gave a 404, however I do not understand why it was rewritten for anonymous users but when logged in it worked fine, still checking. When I also applied read access for the group everyone to the /etc path everything worked fine, however when doing a reboot of the server it cleared the rights for everyone during the repoinit process as described in the sling docs. Oh well, investigation ongoing..
If your ip field contains a proxy IP then the iplocation command will treat it as any other IP - look up its location. The database backing this doesn't have any knowledge of whether an IP is running a proxy or not.
Thank you - but let me update my question. If the ip field is a proxy in the search results we see "Anonymous Proxy". This is impressive, because from what we can tell, it is better then Vindicia's proxy detection or any other paid service's. I'll try to upload a screen shot in a bit...
A web proxy is a server that acts as an intermediary between a client and a target server. When a client makes a request to a target server, the request is first sent to the proxy server, which then forwards the request to the target server. The response from the target server is then sent back to the proxy server, which in turn sends it back to the client. The main purpose of a web proxy is to act as a barrier between a client and the internet, allowing for tasks such as caching, filtering, and anonymity.
You might need a web proxy for a number of reasons. One of the most common uses is to unblock websites and bypass geographical restrictions or censorship. By routing your internet requests through a web proxy, you can hide your IP address and access websites that may be restricted in your region. Additionally, a web proxy can also be used for security and privacy purposes. For example, it can help protect your identity by hiding your IP address from websites and online services that you access. A web proxy can also act as a filter, blocking unwanted or potentially harmful content. Caching is another important function of web proxies, as they can store frequently accessed content locally, reducing the load on the target server and speeding up access times for users. Overall, a web proxy can provide a range of benefits, including improved security, privacy, and access to restricted content.
Depends on what you mean by "best". I will interpret it as "simplest". In Whonix: simplest is, set your proxy in Tor Browser's Tor Button proxy settings. (documentation [although in need of revision])
Are there any security threats when ports are exposed publicly instead of hiding them via proxy? E.g. server application listens on port 8090. We can call this application directly hostname:8090 or use a proxy (apache/nginx/etc/) to make redirect hostname -> hostname:8090.
This mainly depends on how you are doing the proxy. If you are simply using mod_rewrite in Apache or Nginx to redirect from 80 to 8090 ... then there is no security gained at all. This is the equiv of putting a sticky note on the front door of your house saying "please use the door in the back". Anyone can read the sticky, and even if there isn't a sticky anyone could case the house and find the back door to be open (aka port scan your host).
A fairly common pattern is to have a heavy-duty proxy such as apache or nginx that does all the http heavy lifting and takes care of https termination (e.g. handles SSL for you). Your application sits hidden behind that.
This also means that using HTTP redirects to have apache/nginx redirect to your application server port won't work any more (and in fact it shouldn't, because using HTTP redirects won't help to hide your application server from the public internet at all). Instead, you'll have to configure apache/nginx to act as a proxy using their proxy directives.
Shinyproxy 2.5.0 release notes mentions a parameter [sp_hide_navbar] to hide the shinyrproxy nav bar. Where is this parameter set? Inside an r shiny app? Within the shiny proxy application.yml? Can a sample be provided?
Ideally, I would like to remove this appliance to simplify our setup and I understand that our PAs can easily handle 2. and 3. However, is there way to configure the PA for 1? Or do I still need some an inline proxy for this?
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