Re: Proxy stuff

["Mark D. Goldman" <bitshftr () adenine frognet net>]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, John Herron wrote:

> Although this is more of a SecurityBasics topic, in theory couldn't you
> just set up a telnet program/daemon/whatever (atleast on a windows box, I
> would think) you could just define that your ftp box or telnet box is ON
> port 80.  From there just telnet to your computer on port 80 (which would
> be allowed through the firewall) and you'd get access like normal to your
> desired computer.
>
> Thats my question atleast, is that possible? (To tell the daemon to
> listen (like telnetd) on port 80 instead of 23?) --I know with lots of
> ftp sites they sometimes pick oddball ports to listen to, is that the
> same with *nix? (most of these ftp programs that are on odd ports I've
> seen are windows based).

  This is an affermative.  Check your /etc/inetd.conf file under linux.

> And to further answer the original posters question, if your talking
> about can YOU from YOUR box get out on another port and somehow bypass
> the firewall, most likely not.  I think even if you set your proxy
> differently you'd still be going THROUGH the firewall which is the
> blocker anyway, so you can't really setup YOUR PC to do this, you'd have
> to have a PC on the outside to go to through an accepted port and from
> THERE you can go wherever you want to.


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