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privoxy unable to take any additional connections

I run a public proxy and I've got about 400 clients, but when I check the logfile: /var/etc/privoxy/logfile I get lots of: unable to take any additional connections. In /etc/privoxy/config I ...
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Use socks proxy for commands in terminal

I connect to a remote ssh server by running this command: ssh -D 12345 bob@myserver.com This creates a socks proxy that I can use with Firefox to bypass censorship in my country. However, I can't ...
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problem with socks in proxychains

I'm trying to connect to a socks server using proxychains. My ProxyList part of proxychains.conf is: socks5 ip1.sockssrv.org 1080 MYUSER MYPASS When I try to use it; for example using ...
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how do I use rtorrent with a socks5 proxy?

How do I get rtorrent to use a socks5 proxy? I've tried to get socks5 to work with rtorrent, but it doesn't seem to have any impact. Setup the socks5 proxy on port 9800: ssh -ND 9800 user@otherhost ...
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Running fetchmail with Socks proxy

I checked the manual of fetchmail, all it mentioned was SOCKS_CONF, but what is the format of that config file? And how do I know if my fetchmail is configured with --with-socks, fetchmail -V doesn't ...
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Gnome 3 on OpenSUSE 12.2 Proxy Porblem

Recently I've switched from Fedora 17 to OpenSUSE 12.2. I used to add my proxy from Network Settings>Network Proxy>Manual Method>Socks Hosts. But it doesn't work on openSUSE. I get the following ...
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SSH over Socks proxy without username or password

I have a list of SOCKS proxy servers from this site. I've read about creating a dynamic tunnels with ssh -D and to be honest i've tried that already. Unfortunately for some reason I cannot connect to ...
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cURL socks5 proxy: “Empty reply from server”

I'm accessing an http resource using Chrome, FoxyProxy without any problems. The proxy is defined as socks5 in the standard port 1080. I've tried accessing the same resource using cURL (actual URLs ...
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How can I setup a SOCKS4 or 5 proxy on CentOS 5.8?

I live in Iran and due to its restrict censorship, We all have extreme difficulties accessing normal sites and services. So I thought this would be a great idea to setup a proxy server on my VPS, so ...
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SOCKS proxy configuration on KDE 4.4.5 / Debian 6.0.5

I've been trying to use a SOCKS Proxy which I have been using with success from an Ubuntu 11.4 box with GNOME on my Debian box with KDE.The socks server is bound to the local port 1080 through the ...
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Proxychains don't work with socks & auth

I would like to use a socks5 proxy (with authentication) with some programs. I found proxychains. I installed this and added my proxyIP, port, user and password to /etc/proxychains.conf. A test like ...
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Tsocks with mail user agent mailx not working

I use a SOCKS proxy server to send mail using sendmail in Linux and mailx to send mails from the command line. To make use of the SOCKS server, I am using tsocks to send mails using mailx, for ...
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SOCKS proxy without ssh command

Currently I create a ssh tunnel using: ssh user@server -D 1234 to use SOCKS proxy. How do I configure server so I can directly connect to socks server? I want to set firefox socks host to server ip ...
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User authentication over Dante proxy server

Below is my Dante SOCKS Proxy server configuration that I connect to without any authentication: internal: eth0 port = 53200 internal: 127.0.0.1 port = 53200 external: eth0 clientmethod: none ...
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Connection problems creating a socks server with antinat

How can I run a socks server using antinat. I read the tutorials, but I can't get it working. My firewall is off, but I get the error: proxy server is refusing the connection What could I be ...