If a site is banned in some organization, we surf that banned site through a proxy server. So what is happening inside? I know proxy servers maintain logs, so they are not secure. Virtual private connection is better than proxy server because they do not maintain logs. I want to understand the basics of both the things: VPN & proxy server. Can anyone please answer these in simple language..
I have'n used VPN but i have built & sold many proxy servers. They keep logs indeed but only if you get one who keeps... On SourceForge is a project called Mocks and is currently version 0.0.2 Download link downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mocks/mocks/mocks-0.0.2/mocks-0.0.2.tar.gz You can configure it easy. Code: PORT = 10080 # Port MOCKS is to listen to MOCKS_ADDR = 0.0.0.0 # IP adress MOCKS is to bind to LOG_FILE = mocks.log # MOCKS log file (Guess you can remove that) PID_FILE = mocks.pid # File holding MOCKS's process ID BUFFER_SIZE = 65536 # Traffic buffer size in bytes BACKLOG = 5 # Backlog for listen() NEGOTIATION_TIMEOUT = 5 CONNECTION_IDLE_TIMEOUT = 300 BIND_TIMEOUT = 30 SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT = 3 MAX_CONNECTIONS = 50 (This is the max number of connections YOU CAN MAKE) Then on Linux/FreeBSD/SunOS just use ./build and you will have your own socks5 server configured. To start it just Code: ./mocks start - start socks server ./mocks shutdown - to stop it ./mocks help - to see some things i just write in here :) I think that there is a -f argument to force socks server to start.