Re: how to bypass firewalls

[Saqib Ali <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

> i am in lan and i can connect to irc (port 6666-6667)but i can't
> download xdcc streams ,i am wondering if it's possible to bypass a
> firewall and download from irc channels (xdcc)??

if you have a machine running outside the firewall, you can probably
create SSH tunnel to that machine, and pass xdcc traffic through the
tunnel. See:
http://staff.washington.edu/corey/fw/ssh-port-forwarding.html

> an othoder question :if i connect trought ssl to irc server will the
> dcc connection pass trught ssl too?

That depends on your configuration. But SSL is capable of doing that.

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