Anybody know how to go about making a BEAM app use a SOCKS proxy, either by making it SOCKS-aware or otherwise?
I just use an SSH tunnel.
Yeah, i’ve done that but I’m exploring options for distribution scenarios with occasionally connected nodes. The particular use I have in mind is testing against Heroku Exec’s proxy support, but I have some other situations in mind that are more legitimate and may call for something SOCKS-ified.
Well as far as I know epmd has no socks support at all as socks is not at all designed for data like that either (where-as a full tunnel is).
However, something like teleport is erlang code to make the epmd protocol hop and jump over a different connectivity thing, you could do something like that to make it work over socks, do know that it is indeed a hack, you really should set up a tunnel, socks needs to die off already.
Yes, I get that its suboptimal, but not all design choices are technical—some are political, particularly when you actually want to sell your software.
I’ll check out teleport, thanks for the link.
I bet there are tunnels that can go over socks too, maybe find some of those too? 
