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Welcome to the Phoenix Network users server

SSH IP: 208.98.27.3

Currently there is only 1 additional IP, 208.98.27.4, the remaining
IPs (upto .100) will be readded throughout the week.

If Phoenix Network has so many IPs, can port 443 of one of these used
exclusively for SSHD, too? I know, there's the hack
http://old.homeip.net/martin/ssh-https.html which allowes sharing of
port 443 for HTTPD and SSHD, but I feel uncomfortable about the
security issues and possible delay ("It waits for one second for data
from the client"). So if there are enough IP numbers, it's probably
better not to share the port.

Benefit: PuTTY can connect even through restrictive firewalls (i.e.
firewalls allowing HTTPS).

Regards
Thomas

Yes, I would very much appreciate this move too. Another option is anyterm (a very nice ajax terminal), which would make it even easier for people behind restrictive firewalls.

Hack? WTF means hack? Phoenix is using everything legal and no hacks needed here. So find a another suggesstion for that that will be better ;-)

thebeast wrote:Hack? WTF means hack? Phoenix is using everything legal and no hacks needed here. So find a another suggesstion for that that will be better

Already done: the hack would be to let HTTS and SSH share the same port. The other suggestion is to let SSHD listen alone on port 443 for exactly one IP address (as I understand there are several IP addresses available, so the other IP addresses are for HTTS, so there's no conflict). See above for details. Can't see cracking or similiar when doing so.

Regards
Thomas

I would really appreciate this, as I would love to be able to access my shell account from school...but the firewall sucks! If this were possible i could also tunnel thru the shell and browse freely and securely...

Bandit

thebeast wrote:Hack? WTF means hack? Phoenix is using everything legal and no hacks needed here. So find a another suggesstion for that that will be better

This is the good, competent and legal version of hack, not the blackhat version that's popularized by the media and script kiddies.

But really, we really don't need this. If you can't SSH to infinity from somewhere because you're restricted by a firewall, then you probably shouldn't be trying to do that in the first place.

Sephy wrote:If you can't SSH to infinity from somewhere because you're restricted by a firewall, then you probably shouldn't be trying to do that in the first place.

I couldn't have worded it better than that, but it is a very valid suggestion, since sometimes your policy does permit the access to external services, but your firewall's admin is too lazy to change the tables.

Anyways, I consider this should be evaluated by Phoenix's admins.