unblock gmail

[drew einhorn]

Run your encrypted tunnel on a port they don't block, say port 80.
If they block port 80 nobody will be able to browse the web.
But they could defeat that with a proxy server.  I'm sure there's
a port they don't block, with enough traffic to hide in.

How hard are you willing to work at it?

And how much heat are you willing to take if they discover
you've been sneaking past their firewall?

It's not easy.  You would learn a lot.  But it's probably far more
trouble and risk than it's worth.

On 11/20/06, Andy <stude.list at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20/11/06, Wade Smart <wade at wadesmart.com> wrote:
> > 11202006 1740 gmt-6
> > They are probably blocking ports. I dont know if you can get around
> > that.
> Or maybe _they_ read the manual!
>
> According to google to block google chat you just disable DNS for
> chatenabled.mail.google.com by making it return 127.0.0.1 [0]
>
> ways around it?
> VPN or run Gmail on a remote machine and use SSH with X forwarding maybe?
>
> However it is likely your admin has probably blocked all those types
> of techniques as well.
>
> What OS are you using at school? Linux is likely to be more likely to
> work as on Linux you don't need to block software like you do on
> windows because applications can only do what you can do anyway
>
> Does your school run Ubuntu?
>
> - Andy
>
>
> [0] https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=34330&topic=8406
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