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Hi, |
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On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:19:06 -0300 |
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"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <buanzo@××××××××××.ar> wrote: |
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> The other day something quite funny happened to me. I was with my Laptop trying to find an open AP. |
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> I found one, but couldn't browser the internet nor get my OpenVPN (against a USA-based server) up |
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> and running. I started making some tests... and I finally tried sshing into one of my local (i.e in |
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> argentina) servers. |
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> It worked. So, they were filtering (or the internet link didn't have) international access. I |
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> quickly set-up an openvpn server on the argentinian (i.e national) server, a 3proxy-proxy (fast |
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> enough), and told firefox to use it (over the vpn). Quite funny :) |
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I just use ssh for this. Using the "-D" flag gives a SOCKS5 proxy, |
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listening locally, making/accepting connections on the ssh remote end. |
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You can use it directly in Firefox, no need for full-fledged VPN. |
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(and for that, there would be the new "-w" option -- when IP-via-TCP is |
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an option) |
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-hwh |
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