ISP And Contract Issues (was Re: Webone blocking port 25??)

[Joshua McKinney]

Yeah, the problem is with the firewall at my end.

Josh

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:39:43AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Joshua McKinney wrote:
> 
> > I've been using phpwebhosting.com for a coupke of months now, and they
> > are the masters of providing special case stuff for me. They only
> > allow ssh in not telnet, but I needed it to be available on port 23 to
> > get around a firewall at uni and they did it no questions asked.
> > This is just one example, there are others.
> 
> That shouldn't have been necessary, assuming they have port 23 open behind
> _their_ firewall.
> 
> ssh -L 23:<remote_host>:23 <remote_host>
> 
> in one xterm would have set up a telnet tunnel over the ssh connection,
> then you just do:
> 
> telnet localhost
> 
> in a second xterm and you get a secure telnet connection.
> 
> Or is the problem that your firewall won't allow outbound ssh connections?
> 
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