sower

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sower

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Sower is a cross-platform intelligent transparent proxy tool. It provides both socks5 proxy and DNS-based proxy. All these kinds of proxies support intelligent routing.

If you already have another proxy solution, you can use its socks5(h) service as a parent proxy to enjoy sower's intelligent routing.

Installation

To enjoy sower, you need to deploy sower on both server-side(sowerd) and client-side(sower).

Sowerd

If you want to use sower as a secondary proxy to provide intelligent routing, you can skip sowerd.

On the server-side, sowerd runs just like a web server proxy. It will bind two ports 80 / 443.

You can use your own certificate or the certificate automatically applied for by sowerd from Let's Encrypt.

There are two ways to run the sowerd service:

1. Run the command with root permission

   # sowerd -password XXX -fake_site 127.0.0.1:8080
   

2. Install as a systemd service

   [Unit]
   Description=sower server service
   After=network.target
   
   [Service]
   Type=simple
   ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/sowerd
   Environment="FAKE_SITE=127.0.0.1:8080"
   Environment="PASSWORD=XXX"
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target
   

Sower

A config file is required on the sower client side. Here is a usable example in China.

Sower will bind 4 ports by default with root permission. They are: udp(53) / tcp(80) / tcp(443) / tcp(1080).

After doing the next three steps, you can enjoy the intelligent transparent proxy solution:

1. Run the command with root permission:

   # sower -f sower.hcl
   

2. Change your DNS server to 127.0.0.1.

3. Set your proxy to socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080.

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