[lac-streams] can I use this list to ask questions?

[victor]

Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow. It's my uni network. I can do most things
via socks proxy, but not IRC. It could be the port.

Victor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jörn Nettingsmeier" <nettings at stackingdwarves.net>
To: "Linux Audio Conference stream team" <lac-streams at zhevny.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [lac-streams] can I use this list to ask questions?


> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:58:49PM +0000, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Can I use this list to ask questions? IRC is not working here
>>> where I am behind a firewall.
>
> some admins block 6667ff because it's a botnet backchannel for win
> boxes. many irc services, freenode among them, accept connections on
> 8000/tcp as well.
>
> if this doesn't work either, ssh tunneling is your friend.
>
>
> ssh -L 6669:irc.freenode.net.6669
> victor at some.sane.box.without.a.paranoid.firewall.org
>
> then point your client at localhost:6669.
>
> it might take a while because your ident reply will not happen, but
> after a timeout you should be in...
>
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