On Thursday 20 November 2008, 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.
A web proxy is another way to filter 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. i.e. based on Type Of Service [TOS]. The cheaper firewalls usually don't filter based on TOS, but some of the better ones can. > All I really want is to be able to get terminal access to my machine, it > doesn't even have to be in real time or anything. So I was wondering if > anyone knew of some kind of web interface I could set up on my home > computer that would accept terminal commands on a web form or something and > display what is on the screen as a web page? This would probably make > using programs like screen problematic, but it's better than nothing. Another angle is the Social Engineering angle -- if you're friendly with people in the I.T. department, somoene there is likely to know a way to get what you want. Or you might at least be able to find out what kind of firewall is in use and whether they're filtering based on TOS. But if what you want is IRC, you could find a remote web proxy and then log into IRC over the web. It's convoluted but very difficult to filter because there are so many web proxies. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Sep 3 - Porkchop - The Areas of My Expertise Oct 1 - Ubikeys Oct 4 - Linux Fest Nov 5 - Releasing Open Source Software Dec 3 - TBD
