How SOCKS proxies work and using ProxyChains
In this article, we will go over how you can use proxychains to proxy our traffic through a socks proxy. Background Recently, like everyone else, I’ve been working from home a lot more often. This means to access resources at work I need to use a VPN. However, to access some resources, such as production servers from my local machine, I need to use a SOCKS5 proxy. Without using a SOCKS proxy, I would need to do something shown in the diagram below. ...