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Old 02-07-2008
Shell account SSH Tunnelling?
What do I need to do to be able to connect to an IRC server from work?


At work I'm behind a firewall that blocks all IRC connections on standard ports.


I read that I could use a shell account and set something up (which I am searching what) that I could use to connect to and tunnel my connection via SSH on another port opened on my firewall and then connect to IRC, What am I looking for here that is capable of doing that?
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Old 02-07-2008
Yes, you could ssh to a third party that is outside the firewall or another machine that is not restricted unlike your desktop is and then use ssh to proxy from there to ircd.

Port forwarding within the office on the restricted side of the firewall is still going to be blocked if its you directly with an irc client or you to ssh and then ssh to ircd.

But when you do get ssh to work its pretty slick. People in windows would use SecureCRT to tunnel traffic to the 3rd party and from there to irc (127.0.0.7:6667 to irc.freenet.net:6677, via host.thirdparty.com) Then in mIRC you would change the ipaddress of irc.freenet.net's entry to 127.0.0.7.

You might have to tune the connectivity to host.thirdparty.com to not run on the normal SSH port as well.
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Old 02-07-2008
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Originally Posted by HPAVC
Yes, you could ssh to a third party that is outside the firewall or another machine that is not restricted unlike your desktop is and then use ssh to proxy from there to ircd.

Port forwarding within the office on the restricted side of the firewall is still going to be blocked if its you directly with an irc client or you to ssh and then ssh to ircd.

But when you do get ssh to work its pretty slick. People in windows would use SecureCRT to tunnel traffic to the 3rd party and from there to irc (127.0.0.7:6667 to irc.freenet.net:6677, via host.thirdparty.com) Then in mIRC you would change the ipaddress of irc.freenet.net's entry to 127.0.0.7.

You might have to tune the connectivity to host.thirdparty.com to not run on the normal SSH port as well.
What can i use to to do that preferably in a free unix shell I can get online somewhere, anything?
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Old 02-07-2008
You need a third party someplace that is willing to forward traffic for you or a shell account on an external provider. If you do find a free online unix shell provider, come let us know, they aren't exactly common Smilie
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Old 02-08-2008
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Originally Posted by Smiling Dragon
You need a third party someplace that is willing to forward traffic for you or a shell account on an external provider. If you do find a free online unix shell provider, come let us know, they aren't exactly common Smilie
Edit:

I deleted this reply by KromIX.

Do not indirectly spam these forums with "set up" questions, that then lead the original poster, or their tout(s), to spam answers.

I will ban folks for this type of "set up the question and then answer with spam" techniques.

ps: thread closed.

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