[CLUG] Mail server records

[Ruairi Newman]

On Tue, October 18, 2005 16:49, Ronan Kirby wrote:
> [SNIP!]
>> Curse you and your unfettered 'net access.  I, on the other hand, get a
>> nice official-looking page that says...
> [SNIP!]
>> And no, I can't bypass the proxy here either.
>
> There are a couple of things you can try, if you've not already
> considered them. I normally use SSH tunnels, with a proxy on a server
> out on the Internet to handle the http traffic I'm tunnelling. Of course
> you probably don't have external SSH access, in which case you can use
> connect.c* to tunnel an SSH connection through the proxy server on your
> local lan. However this won't work on all proxies, i.e. the ones which
> control the remote port. In this case you need to have an SSHD listening
> on port 443. I've rarely found this to fail to work through even the
> most anal setups.

Thanks, but in this office, I am also obliged to use a Windows desktop, as
they refuse to allow any kit that doesn't belong to them to attach to the
network.

I'll keep your mail to hand for future reference though :)



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