Crankygeek Wannabe wrote:
> I did a google search on "surfing anonymously" and came across a page
> which told me to add the following line as a proxy entry
>
> http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/proxy.pac

There are advantages and disadvantages to using a proxy server for web
surfing. Some people who choose a web proxy for anonymity choose bad
proxy servers. The site you show is about 'Free Public Proxy Servers
Lists' which includes the good the bad and the ugly.

> I did so and all the checks I did from there on show the desired
> result (my IP is masked).

.... if you trust your web proxy more than you trust the website server.
That is not uniformly a good idea.

> "slrn posting anonymously" and was greeted with a page that
> told me it was not going to complete my search because my search
> criteria was simliar to a request for viruses and trojans.

The business of avoiding posting an NPH nntppostinghost line in your
headers of your newsgroup posts to this group can be accomplished by using
a newsprovider that doesn't stamp the line. There are free and pay
newsservers which don't stamp NPH -- most do not.

Your aliant provider gives you the name of a newsserver news.aliant.net,
but that news is outsourced to newshosting. That is news.aliant.net =
cname aliant.svc.highwinds-media.com which = 66.250.146.207 no rDNS which
is a newshosting IP

If I try to access the news.aliant.net newsserver from my IP, it doesn't
want me to engage; which is a common practice with providers not letting
foreign IPs have access to login to the server.

Some decisions that people make about using proxies is counterproductive.

--
Mike Easter

On 2008-06-29, Crankygeek Wannabe wrote:
> I did a google search on "surfing anonymously" and came across a page
> which told me to add the following line as a proxy entry
>
> http://rosinstrument.com/cgi-bin/proxy.pac
>
> I did so and all the checks I did from there on show the desired
> result (my IP is masked). So I then did a google search for
>
> "slrn posting anonymously" and was greeted with a page that
> told me it was not going to complete my search because my search
> criteria was simliar to a request for viruses and trojans.
>
> I am assuming that the proxy server I am going through is
> responsible for this, but what I want to know is, is there
> a way to set up a proxy server outside of Firefox on my own
> machine so that I can redirect requests out through it
> for all internet access?
>
> Is Squid a good choice for this or are there better ones available?
>
> thanks
>

Squid is my favorite, and is very flexible (caching proxy). There are
others out there, though...


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