From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IWzou-0000tu-JL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:30:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8GJLRAm000956; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:21:27 GMT Received: from gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de [134.76.163.126]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8GJH8vK028261 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:17:08 GMT Received: by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix, from userid 8) id A83443246B4; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:13:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dslc-082-082-181-222.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.82.181.222]) by gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750CF3246B3 for ; Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:13:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:17:04 +0200 From: Hans-Werner Hilse To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [ot] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: [gentoo]Block certain websites Message-Id: <20070916211704.2e19bc31.hilse@web.de> In-Reply-To: <46ED496A.8020406@buanzo.com.ar> References: <7400.73000.qm@web8811.mail.in.yahoo.com> <200709161331.22675.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <2679796.ViVlTTjx6N@m-id.message-center.info> <200709161649.26695.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <46ED496A.8020406@buanzo.com.ar> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.4 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on gabriel.sub.uni-goettingen.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Archives-Salt: bf7cfe15-4625-4a44-9455-4cb590b10fa6 X-Archives-Hash: 80e10d9a074d9d7821d5a5de864c8676 Hi, On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:19:06 -0300 "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list