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TOR SOCKS Proxy Docker

To run a TOR SOCKS proxy server in docker, one can either build the image following the guide below OR pull the image directly from UNIC-IFF Dockerhub.

Pulling the docker image from the Dockerhub.

docker pull uniciff/tor_socks_proxy

Building the TOR SOCK proxy image

To build the docker image for TOR socks, run the following.

chmod +x ./build_containers.sh
./build_container.sh

Running the TOR SOCKS proxy in a local container

docker run -d --rm --name tor-socks-proxy -p 9050:9050 uniciff/tor_socks_proxy

It will start the TOR SOCKS PROXY and it listens to new connections on port 9050.

Alternatively, one can include use it as a service in a docker-compose.yaml file. Just add a similar to the following service entry:

version : "3.2"

services:
  tor_socks_proxy:
    image: uniciff/tor_socks_proxy
    container_name: tor_socks_proxy
    restart: unless-stopped
    expose:
      - "9050"
    networks:
      - local-tor-exposed-net

  other_service:
    image: alpine
    networks:
      - local-tor-exposed-net

networks:
  local-tor-exposed-net

Contributors

IFF Research Team @ UNIC

• Antonios Inglezakis ( @antIggl ) - Researcher / Senior Software Engineer and Systems Administrator, University of Nicosia - Institute For the Future (UNIC-IFF)
• Klitos Christodoulou ( @klitoschr ) - Research Manager and Faculty Member, University of Nicosia - Institute For the Future (UNIC-IFF)
• Elias Iosif ( @iosife ) - Faculty Member, University of Nicosia - Institute For the Future (UNIC-IFF)

About IFF

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