With all the crap going on in Iran at the moment, some of us around the world are setting up proxy servers to help the people in Iran communicate among each other and also get info out to the world. However, simple HTTP proxy servers don’t cut it anymore since the Iranian government seems to be quick to block them.
The best thing right now seem to be SSH tunnels, which can be challenging to set up for not-so technically inclined users. For everybody within Iran who wants to go through such an SSH tunnel, a quick step-by-step guide. You’ll usually get an IP address, 2 ports (usually 80 and 3128), username and password (one distributor of these is Austin Heap). What to do with that info depends on the operating system you’re using.
Windows:
- Use BitTorrent to download http://iran.sharearchy.com/tunnel.torrent
- Read the Howto and run the tunnel.exe file which you got in the torrent
- Enter the info (ports, IP address, username, password) into the Tunnel program
- Configure your browser (i.e., Firefox) as per the instructions in the Howto
Linux, Mac:
- Open a Terminal
- Type this into it: “ssh -oPort=PORT1 -L PORT2:localhost:PORT2 USERNAME@IPADDRESS” – so for example: “ssh -oPort=80 -L 3128:localhost:3128 iran@80.25.15.30″ and press . After that it’ll ask you for the password
- Set your browser to use “localhost:PORT2″ (so, for example, “localhost:3128″) as the HTTP proxy
Please try to get this info into Iran by whatever means available to you.