On 11/05/2007 02:32 PM, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
I'm stuck behind a silly firewall that believes that blocking everything
except port 80 is the high point of network security.
However, I can't get to an external IMAP server (which, sadly, I do not
control or I'd just move it to port 80) to pick up email that I need.
Any suggestions?
In my former job I was behind such a firewall, though fortunately I had
outbound port 22 open in addition to 80 and 443. In that situation I set
up an ssh connection to my home server with dynamic port forwarding
(-D6889) and then configured the necessary applications to use a SOCKS
proxy (localhost:6889) to tunnel "unauthorized" traffic through home.
If you have a server, I suppose you can set its sshd to listen on
inbound port 80 and set up the connection from work accordingly.
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Brad Beyenhof
Systems Administrator
UC San Diego, Laboratory of Cognitive Imaging
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