As briefly noted earlier, I have been working through using Amazon EC2 instances as an on-demand proxy. I am making progress, and can reliably launch and ssh into a given instance.

The problem is that so far I can’t figure out how to share that ssh connection with applications or the operating system. There are plenty of tutorials that cover setting up the OS or an app (usually a web browser) to use an sash session as a proxy; my problem appears to be that once I have ssh up, the session is not being shared outside the establishing application.

This could be a consequence of some firewalling I am unaware of or it could be something more fundamental (application walls or something) which the easy-to-find pre-Lion and pre-Win7 tutorials don’t have to address.

Anyway. Learning.