Re: Proxy stuff

[Dom De Vitto <dom () DEVITTO COM>]

 | -----Original Message-----
 | From: VULN-DEV List [mailto:VULN-DEV () securityfocus com]On Behalf Of Mark D. Goldman
 | 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.

Yep, but the data port won't bind to an accessable port, unless the ftp 
server is pretty hacked about, and you're using PASV mode.  Still a lot
of work little benefit.  You could use any other transfer protocol that
can be tunneled single TCP port, SSH tunnelers will agree.

Tunneling VNC over and through web proxies has been recently discussed
on the VNC mailing list, with patches.

Of course it gets tricky if the machine you're connecting to isn't
controlled by you, (open old WinGATE boxes, etc. etc.)

TTFN,
Dom