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neu242
Asked: 2011-01-27 02:09:31 +0800 CST

How do I use MacPorts (rsync) through a SOCKS5 proxy?

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MacPorts relies on rsync to do its job, and I rely on a SOCKS5 proxy to get full access to internet. How do I make rsync run all its queries through my proxy?

mac-osx proxy rsync socks

2 Answers

  1. Sorry to just paste a url, but its explained here. Essentially you install the connect utility, add something like this to ~/.ssh/config:

    Host stokebloke.com
    ProxyCommand connect -S user@socks-server:1080 %h %p

    Then use:

    rsync --progress -avrz -e ssh src_dir/ [email protected]:~/dest_dir/
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  2. Alternatively to Sirex' answer, you can use nc(1) (netcat) to use the proxy.

    Again, modify your ~/.ssh/config file:

    Host server-prox
        Hostname www.server.com
        ProxyCommand /usr/bin/nc -x localhost:8080 %h %p

    then run

    rsync -e ssh server-prox:path/to/files

    and rsync (or rather ssh) will automatically use the proxy command.

    This assumes there is a SOCKS proxy running on localhost port 8080, which you can get with

    ssh -D 8080 proxyserver.com

    Personally I use 

    ssh -qfxND 8080 proxyserver.com

    to set up a proxy tunnel, where -qfxN make the command run quietly in the background, see ssh(1).

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