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Hi sorry for a quick, and possibly very stupid question. SSH normally uses port 22, but my organization's restrictive firewall blocks outbound connections headed to this port. Is there anyway I can access my shell account through another, less restrictive port- say 443 ("ssh -p 443 [email protected]")? Thanks!

If i dont lie myself you have to connect not to user.phoenix-hosting.org, the right address is infinity.phoenix-hosting.org. About ports you have to ask Administrators of the server. Good luck!

Or you can setup a box at home with ssh running on port 80 or 443 or other port that's not blocked by the corporate firewall and ssh to phoenix from your box. Anyway I see no reason for a sysadmin to block outbound traffic on 22.

gderg srth

i have been connecting to icarus.phoenix-hosting.org all the time and it worked for me...so seems also to be possible

This has come up a few times before, one example of it is here.

Yeah, I have had the same problem on occasion. What I find though is that most corp firewalls tend not to block all misc ports, so you might be able to ssh to a home box on say port 3100 and get through the firewall that way. Another thing to do is find a program simular to "pipe" where you can pipe traffic from one port to another within your computer. So, for example, set pipe to take anything coming out to port 22 and pipe it to port 21 or 80 instead. I used to have the program but haven't been able to find it in years.

I have the same problem at uni. My way around it - is to have my server at home configed for port 443 and then ssh from it to any other box that needs port 22. Its the only way to get out of the network.

Ok thanks for the nice (non-flaming) responses guys! I'll try to setup an SSHD on my OpenBSD box at home on 443 and try that.