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title: SOCKS Proxy author: rhnvrm type: post date: 2017-02-04T18:21:25+00:00 url: blog/2017/02/04/i-used-to-use-the-l-flag/ categories:

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• foss
• linux format: status

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I used to use the `-L` flag in SSH but today I was going through the man page and saw the `-D` flag. It can be used to make a SOCKS5 proxy easily. For eg. `ssh -f -N -D 8080 [email protected]`

Also, a big thanks to EliteBNC.org for giving a free ZNC node. Feels great to be back on IRC after so long.