09-24-2001
No suggestions. I cannot think of any 100 percent reliable way to check this. Proxies, from the client perspective, look the same as clients. As you suggest, high port numbers are not an indication of a proxy server. Clients use high port numbers as well.
You might be able to guess proxies from large companies that direct the vast majority of traffic thru proxy servers by a study of the IP addresses of the connections. This would be a good guess for large organizations. You can also tell clients that are more-than-likely not proxied because of the hostname, i.e. the DHCP names of clients with Roadrunner, @Home, etc. This would be intelligent guessing (at best) and incomplete.
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ssh-socks5-proxy-connect
ssh-socks5-proxy-connect(1) User Commands ssh-socks5-proxy-connect(1)
NAME
ssh-socks5-proxy-connect - Secure Shell proxy for SOCKS5
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-socks5-proxy-connect
[-h socks5_proxy_host]
[-p socks5_proxy_port] connect_host connect_port
DESCRIPTION
A proxy command for ssh(1) that uses SOCKS5 (RFC 1928). Typical use is where connections external to a network are only allowed via a socks
gateway server.
This proxy command does not provide any of the SOCKS5 authentication mechanisms defined in RFC 1928. Only anonymous connections are possi-
ble.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-h socks5_proxy_host Specifies the proxy web server through which to connect. Overrides the SOCKS5_SERVER environment variable.
-p socks5_proxy_port Specifies the port on which the proxy web server runs. If not specified, port 80 is assumed. Overrides the
SOCKS5_PORT environment variable.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
socks5_proxy_host The host name or IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) of the proxy.
socks5_proxy_port The numeric port number to connect to on socks5_proxy_host.
connect_host The name of the remote host to which the socks gateway is to connect you.
connect_port The numeric port number of the socks gateway to connect you to on connect_host.
EXAMPLES
The recommended way to use a proxy connection command is to configure the ProxyCommand in ssh_config(4) (see Example 1 and Example 2).
Example 3 shows how the proxy command can be specified on the command line when running ssh(1).
Example 1 Setting the proxy from the environment
The following example uses ssh-socks5-proxy-connect in ssh_config(4) when the proxy is set from the environment:
Host playtime.foo.com
ProxyCommand /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-socks5-proxy-connect
playtime.foo.com 22
Example 2 Overriding proxy environment variables
The following example uses ssh-socks5-proxy-connect in ssh_config(4) to override (or if not set) proxy environment variables:
Host playtime.foo.com
ProxyCommand /usr/lib/ssh/ssh-socks5-proxy-connect -h socks-gw
-p 1080 playtime.foo.com 22
Example 3 Using the command line
The following example uses ssh-socks5-proxy-connect from the ssh(1) command line:
example$ ssh -o'ProxyCommand=/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-socks5-proxy-connect
-h socks-gw -p 1080 playtime.foo.com 22' playtime.foo.com
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
SOCKS5_SERVER Takes socks5_proxy_host operand to specify the default proxy host.
SOCKS5_PORT Takes socks5_proxy_port operand to specify the default proxy port.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
1 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsshu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Stable |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ssh(1), ssh-http-proxy-connect(1), ssh_config(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.11 30 Oct 2002 ssh-socks5-proxy-connect(1)