Avoiding Telkom http proxy : tunnelling on SSH

[fredgr]

Hello

I am fed up with that Proxy on HTTP requests by Telkom that forbids me to access some sites correctly.

I have full access to a linux machine overseas. I connect via SSH thanks to a remote daemon sshdthat allows me to tunnel all the protocols that I want on the port 22.

Is there a way to install a daemon on my overseas machine, that would enable me connect to it via my Hellkom ADSL line, and then to surf the the web as if I was on that remote machine, via the SSH tunnelling ?

 

[alaincraven]

It would depend on what you want to achieve. I know that quite often I cannot access www.dnsstuff.com from my ADSL account, so I terminal server into my server at IS, and do my thing there. Now, that works fine for small sites, but not for major surfing.

If you have full control over your linux box, how about vncserver, started from ssh?

 

[fredgr]

in fact, i experience problems when i upload files via FrontPage onto overseas servers, some pages (paypal for example) do not display correctly, FTP is awful, so I just tought of tunnelling all that via my overseas Linux box.

VNCServer is OK, but it is just a remote display. I am talking about tunneling some protocols so that my SA machine looks like being overseas, at least for the protocols I need.

 

[alaincraven]

Not something I have much experience with, and I am not in the position to test, since I do not have a server sitting elsewhere running linux, but try

http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/

If you get it to work, let us know!

 

[pookfuzz]

SSH already caters for file uploads. Use scp or similar.

For general browsing just set up a socks proxy, fairly easy and semi secure. If you really want you could even set up IPSec or PPTP VPN, although I have found the performance of VPN is not very good.

 

[gkm]

Shaping is going to give you a lot of grief when you use ports other than the standard http one.