Dustin Kirkland: Keep One SSH Tunnel to a Bip Proxy Server Running

I’ve been using IRC proxies on-and-off since 1999, and consistently since 2003.

I used dircproxy until February 2008, when I tied Canonical, at which point I switched to bip, as I looked-for help for SSL encrypted connections.

I’ve also helped at least a dozen friends and colleagues construct similar setups, so this blog post documentation is long, long overdue and triggered by another colleague asking me tonight to clarify my setup again :-)

As you’ll see below, it’s not too complex, but it’s really quite robust.