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

[Liz Quilty]

On Monday 10 July 2006 12:17, Justin Cook wrote:
> SSH isn't exactly the leading protocol for warez, porn and pirated
> music. ;) 
Unless you're sshing to your server that runs a screen session with 
irc/bittorrent/ftp etc :)

> Nonetheless a concerted campaign of disapproval is always fun. 
>
> *disapproval*
Yes, yes indeed
*disapproval*

Liz

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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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