On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:36:38 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
There are some online tutorials about how to circumvent firewall problems using ssh tunelling.
http://forums.exabytes.com/linux-control-panel-cpanel/102-using-rsync-throu gh-firewall.html http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/firewall.html
I regularly use ssh tunnels to circumvent firewall problems. Basically, it requires a few simple and readily available tools (ssh, nc). For example (under linux), it can be as simple as setting up the file $HOME/.ssh/config Host contextgarden.net ProxyCommand nohup ssh firewall_host_name nc -w1 %h %p Then, rsync -e ssh -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . just works... (This scheme requires nc [netcat] be available on the firewall)