access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

[Vince Hoffman]

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, å¼ é~_¡æ­¦ wrote:

> Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great
> firewall of China:
>
> 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server;
> 2) I run this command on my desktop:
> $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server;
> 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line:
> [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org
>
> So my computer become a 'proxy'.
>
> The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will
> not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer.
>
> Is it possible to install some software to run as a daemon and do this
> proxy?
>
> I think of stunnel, but I have too few knowledge to know if stunnel can
> do this.

maybe autossh ?
http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/
Its in ports
Port:   autossh-1.4a
Path:   /usr/ports/security/autossh
Info:   Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels

Otherwise as many other people have said there are may better ways to do 
this.

Vince
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