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Re: By passing surf control


From: Charles Hamby <fixer () gci net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:14:47 -0900

Have you tried checking to see if IP address obfuscation works?

In case anyone's not familair with this...

Using http://www.amazon.com as an example. If I wanted to go there but it was blocked, I would find out what the IP address of www.amazon.com is (say using ping).

In this case it happens to be 207.171.181.16. I would then convert each octet into hex individually. (207 is CF, 171 is AB, 181 is B5 and 16 is 10) Then I would put CFABB510 into my calculator (Windows calculator works just fine for this, by the way) and conver it to decimal again. I would come up with 3484136720 I would open up my web browser and put in http://3484136720 and up comes Amazon.com.

Charles Hamby

McNutt, Jacob wrote:

SSH tunneling/port forwarding to a proxy might work if they have access to it.  Also, we have a problem with AOL client 
browsers that can bypass Websense all together.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kudakwashe Chafa-Govha [mailto:KChafa-Govha () bankunitedfla com] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:04 PM
To: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: By passing surf control

Hello Group,


Does anyone have any information on how to by pass a web content filter? We use Surf Control to monitor and filter web 
content. However, I have one of my users who was able to by pass this. We tried using a proxy to by pass just for 
testing purposes but it did not work. I am still trying to figure out what other method he used to do so. If anyone has 
any information , it will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Kuda

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