IRC blocked by a Firewall

stereo_steve · 01-12-2003 4:07pm #1

I'm sitting here in college using a superfast connecting to the internet but I can't use irc and there are some big files I'd like to download. Can someone tell me is it possible to tunnel through the firewall? Use a proxy or something? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

seamus · 01-12-2003 4:10pm

What college? Most colleges have people here, and have found ways to get IRC over their proxy.

The_B_Man · 01-12-2003 4:12pm

go into Option -> Connect -> Firewall and enter the same details that internet explorer uses. to find them out, open internet explorer and click Tools -> internet options and go to connections -> LAN settings. that should do it unless they blocked sumtin sneakily!

stereo_steve · 01-12-2003 4:12pm

DIT kevin street. Any info?

angelofdeath · 01-12-2003 4:20pm

in sligo IT internet options was blocked so we http tunneled for a while till they figured that out, http is slow but for irc its grand

stereo_steve · 01-12-2003 4:26pm

Thanks for all the replies but when I go into the LAN settings it just goes automatically detect settings. They aren't there. How can I tunnel? WIll loose the fast speed I have? Thanks

scojones · 01-12-2003 4:26pm

http://www.http-tunnel.com

Oriel · 01-12-2003 9:16pm

Http-tunnel used to be free for very slow speeds (suitable for irc) but now they've made the whole thing a pay service.
There's few other programs out there if you google for them, but they're more awkward to use.

Ebonyks · 02-12-2003 2:49am

Me also in Kevin Street

Have tried HTTP-Tunnel but i may have set it up wrong, it just will not work. No other P2P will work either apart from Kazaa-Lite.

Keep me posted on any solutions will ya?

sikes · 02-12-2003 8:36am

does anybody have any solutions for trinity?

thanks for any help

stereo_steve · 02-12-2003 9:03am

HTTP tunnel was no good. It was painfully slow for the free service. HAs anyone got any other suggestions?

daveJAM · 02-12-2003 10:46am

Well for IRC in college you can't beat CGI:IRC.

Make sure you use the full configuration and turn off encoded_ips. Otherwise quakenet will think you're a floodbot and you'll get a username invalid error.

Now all ya need is a cgi bin!:)

IrishMike · 02-12-2003 2:36pm

in ul u can get around it by getting a shell account from the computer society ie
skynet for about 3 euro a year and log onto irc from that
or u can forward a port using putty to the shell account and use it that way
email the admin of the college computer society and ask

i persume when u said super fast connection and irc u didnt mean to use it for just chat ?
if its for files - 100% legal ones of course - then a web based channel wont do any good

have a look here
http://www.penguinhosting.net/~ian/firewall/

IRC blocked by a Firewall

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