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NOTICE: I am completely allowed to do this. This is not meant for accessing sites I am not supposed to go on I know that most threads with "Proxy" in the title have to do with getting to sites they're not supposed to go on.

I hope that I can get this to be as easy as possible. I hope it can be as easy as setting up an OpenSSH server.

What happened My dad has just screwed something up in our router settings, and I can't access Google anymore because if it. I need to be able to access Google. He doesn't like me in the router because he thinks I will make it worse. (I am sick of Bing and Yahoo)

So I want to set up a proxy server that will allow me to work around what he screwed up.

What I want to do I want to host it on a computer in my grandpa's house, and access it with my computer at my dad's house. It's running Xubuntu. I want it to work with the Mozilla Firefox on my computer at my dad's house running Ubuntu 11.10.

How can I set this up?

This is only temporary until he fixes whatever he did.

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If a SOCKS proxy is sufficient for you, you can set it up with one command. Assuming proxy.grandpa.lan is your proxy host, with ssh server installed on it and your account there is Dolphin:

ssh -D localhost:8899 [email protected]

And then set up in your browser, for example in the Firefox 13 I happen to have running right now, Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Network > Settings... > Manual proxy configuration and in the SOCKS Host field put in localhost and Port as per the command line 8899. Most port numbers above 1024 will work. Default seems to be SOCKS v5, which worked at least for me.

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Install squid. The basic setup (which is provided) will work. Or use the ubuntu doc Squid

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