On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:34:42AM -0500, John Mort wrote:
> One of the few down sides to my new job is what appears to be a rather
> restrictive firewall.  I typically open an SSH connection to my computer at
> home, which has a screen session running Irssi so I can participate in
> #mhvlug.  Yesterday my connection attempts were failing, but most websites
> work, so I figured maybe they'd let something go through port 80.  This
> morning I moved SSH to port 80 and then tried to connect again from work,
> and it still fails. Not being too knowledgeable about these things, I'd
> guess they're looking at the packages and blocking anything that isn't
> obviously web traffic.

Option 1:

sslrelay + ssh to tunnel ssh over SSL to port 443.  They can't look
inside SSL, and this will make it look like a normal connection if
they're looking at proto headers.

Option 2:

http://www.darknet.org.uk/2008/09/reduh-tcp-redirection-over-http/

ReDuh tunnels TCP over HTTP using a PHP script on the server.

Side comment:

Going this far to get a terminal your company policies don't want you to
have might be considered... problematic, if they catch you at it.  Just
my $0.02.

-m

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