Huh... that is interesting. I haven't heard of a such thing. I'll see
if it's allowed and if so I'll use it.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote:
>
> If they scanned your computer they'd find no open ports, because the tunnel
> is an outbound connection. The actual open port would be on your home
> machine, but connections mae to it would go (through the tunnel) to your
> campus machine.
>
> I know this may sound peculiar but it does work. I have a Rivendell system
> hiding behind a firewall in North Carolina that appears to have no open
> ports, but the machine is accessible through a port on my computer here in
> Massachusetts.
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Patrick Schmalstig / WRRJ Radio wrote:
>
>> ...and that's what would make it not work. Campus does not allow ANY
>> port to be open on any computers on their network. I can open SSH port
>> on computer not located at college but not on the one that is at
>> college.
>>
>>>  Almost.
>>>  The port would be open on the campus computer, but ONLY for
>>>  incoming requests made via the SSH tunnel from the other end.
>>>  Nothing else ( even itself ) would be able to find it.
>>
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