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[AuckLUG] Funky ways of getting where you want with SSH

Justin Cook justin at skull.co.nz
Mon Jul 10 12:17:07 NZST 2006


SSH isn't exactly the leading protocol for warez, porn and pirated 
music. ;) Nonetheless a concerted campaign of disapproval is always fun.

*disapproval*


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Liz Quilty wrote:
> Surely if work has blocked it then you shouldnt be using it.
>
> Liz
>
> On Monday 10 July 2006 11:41, Michal Ludvig wrote:
>   
>> Chilling_Silence wrote:
>>     
>>> Recently work has blocked anything not on a standard http / ftp (Prolly
>>> https and one or two other things) from getting out through the proxy.
>>>
>>> I know that Webmin has a java-based client that allows you to connect to
>>> the local box its running on remotely, however this seems to be broken,
>>> although the non-interactive prompt that allows you to simply submit
>>> bash commands seems to work (But this is useless if I wanna use
>>> something like nano).
>>>       
>> Do they really block all other traffic or are they those
>> Use-Mouse-Only-Admins who don't understand much what they do and only
>> used their firewall webinterface to block some TCP ports?
>>
>> Can you get UDP through? If yes just use some of the VPN tunnels that
>> work over UDP (e.g. OpenVPN does)
>>
>> If UDP is not an option - can you get ICMP packets through? Try this
>> TCP-over-ICMP tunnel: http://www.cs.uit.no/~daniels/PingTunnel/
>>
>> There are other tunneling solutions for VPN-over-<something-weird>.
>> E.g. VPN-over-HTTP/S that could pass HTTP proxies:
>> http://www.runslinux.net/projects/htun/description.html
>>
>> Or VPN-over-DNS that could pass through your provider/company DNS
>> servers: http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=168
>>
>> Disclaimer: I haven't personally tried any of the above, but am
>> definitely interested in your success stories ;-)
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Michal
>> * http://www.logix.cz/michal
>>
>>
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