On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 01:32, José Fonseca wrote: > Anybody knows if there is any way around firewalled IRC port? As this > is (hopefully) my last PhD year I've decided to spend most of my time in > the university and dropped internet home. I'd like to assist the IRC > meetings but unfortunatly my university blocks the IRC port. I once > asked IT support to open it up for me, but they close it again. That's > why I'm wondering if there is any way to access the freenode.net network > in another port before relying on IT support once again. My google > searches on this subject have been unsuccessful so far...
If you have ssh access to a machine where the IRC port isn't blocked, you can use ssh port forwarding (or simply run an IRC client in a terminal, purists might throw in :). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
