Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Iruata Souza
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Salman Aljammaz wrote: > Uriel wrote: >> If your work firewall proxies port 80, then things get trickier, you >> could mount sources on the home inferno instance, and then export it >> using mjl's httpd as a read-only http 'tree'. > > assuming you've got openssh, on

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread John Floren
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Salman Aljammaz wrote: > Uriel wrote: >> If your work firewall proxies port 80, then things get trickier, you >> could mount sources on the home inferno instance, and then export it >> using mjl's httpd as a read-only http 'tree'. > > assuming you've got openssh, on

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Salman Aljammaz
Uriel wrote: > If your work firewall proxies port 80, then things get trickier, you > could mount sources on the home inferno instance, and then export it > using mjl's httpd as a read-only http 'tree'. assuming you've got openssh, one trick i used to do back in school was run sshd on on port 443.

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread erik quanstrom
> traceroute can't get to that IP address, so I'm pretty sure the corporate > firewall is doing its job. traceroute failure just means that someone is not passing icmp traffic. the only thing you know is icmp traffic won't pass. here's a dirty trick you can do with plan 9 traceroute: ; ip/tracer

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Uriel
Why not run inferno (or 9vx) on your home machine, export /net on port 80, mount it from work using inferno again, and you are out. If your work firewall proxies port 80, then things get trickier, you could mount sources on the home inferno instance, and then export it using mjl's httpd as a read-

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Simon
There are several places which have readonly versions of sources available via http, alternatively there is a socks client or even htfilefs, the former uses the SOCKS protocol to tunnel through the firewall. htfilefs mounts a remote ISO image (like the plan9 nightly build iso) over an http connect

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-24 Thread Jason Catena
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 23:35, andrey mirtchovski wrote: > Just checking: have you tried accessing it by IP address > (204.178.31.8) rather than hostname? (this, of course, assumes that > you've ruled out a bad ndb configuration as the reason). > traceroute can't get to that IP address, so I'm pr

Re: [9fans] plan9port behind corporate firewall with no DNS or port access

2009-07-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
Just checking: have you tried accessing it by IP address (204.178.31.8) rather than hostname? (this, of course, assumes that you've ruled out a bad ndb configuration as the reason). how about trying with a 9p client such as cl.py from your "normal" machine? $ cl.py n...@sources.cs.bell-labs.com 9