Hey guys, been a long time fan of the show since the first one! plus been floating round the forums for a while now, thought I would post something i have been working on.
an old post http://forums.hak5.org/index.php/topic,1208.0.html (hope linking is not again forum rules?) talks about some sort of SSH tunnel to a box at home to bypass the wifi networks requiring login and or payment such as @ starbucks, or in my case coffee republic (which runs "The Cloud" as do most places here in the UK) I am running OS X on my main machine i take with me, and have a vista box at home I am using to run the SSH server on. I was able to get as far as that really. . . I got cygwin installed and configured. I believe I changed the port its running on to 53 (via the ssh_config file) because as mentioned in the thread above it could possibly be open? i figured the default 22 would be closed for certain. So that was pretty much all i did to my windows box.
On the routers port forward i forwarded the range 20-55 to my windows machine, as forwarding 22 or 53 specifically were already in use it said (for tcp/udp) I also registered the ip with dynDNS so i have a static url to work with.
on my Mac (whilst still on my house network) i pulled up the terminal and "ssh name@hostname" (using the dynDNS address for hostname) so technically it is what i would do from outside the network. It pulls it up just fine. I enter my password and get the tunnel open right? which works that way. *one thing to note here, the mac builtin ssh uses port 22 and i cannot find a way to change it so i downloaded SSH tunnel manager which let me specifiy port 53, but for the time being both ways worked. I then went to firefox and set it to use a manual proxy which i set to 127. 0. 0. 1 : 8080 (which i read somewhere) For all intensive purposes i could browse just fine with the tunnel open via the terminal, or the manager, and the proxy set to manual. (though i have no definitive proof it was using the internet connection on my windows machine to do the surfing.
I thought it was good enough to test at this point so i went out to the coffee shop (the cloud) and connected, got to their "login / pay screen" and tried to fire up the tunnel manager and terminal ssh bash to see what happened. both just ended up timing out. Thats about as far as i got. . . my guess is 22 (which the terminal was running on i beleive) was blocked, along with 53 (which the manager should have been using) but I cannot confirm this.
I am still messing with it obviously - i am stubborn and persistent in all honesty so this is going to drive me crazy for a while. Anyone have any thought on what i could be doing wrong? if it could be a port issue? or how i can find out what ports i need to/ should be using? appreciate anything you wise masterful people can offer.
Cheers!
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