Re: [ot] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites

[Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>]

Hi,

On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:19:06 -0300
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <buanzo@buanzo.com.ar> wrote:

> The other day something quite funny happened to me. I was with my Laptop trying to find an open AP.
> I found one, but couldn't browser the internet nor get my OpenVPN (against a USA-based server) up
> and running. I started making some tests... and I finally tried sshing into one of my local (i.e in
> argentina) servers.
> 
> It worked. So, they were filtering (or the internet link didn't have) international access. I
> quickly set-up an openvpn server on the argentinian (i.e national) server, a 3proxy-proxy (fast
> enough), and told firefox to use it (over the vpn). Quite funny :)

I just use ssh for this. Using the "-D" flag gives a SOCKS5 proxy,
listening locally, making/accepting connections on the ssh remote end.
You can use it directly in Firefox, no need for full-fledged VPN.
(and for that, there would be the new "-w" option -- when IP-via-TCP is
an option)

-hwh
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