hey eveyone! im new to the forum but ive been watching tek synicate for a while now and decided to get into conversations outside of the videos so consider this to be my introduction!
now for the reason i posted this thread, for about the past year or so i have been really interested in networking and some IT based tasks, i started with a old windows XP "server" and recently bought a awesome dell rack mount server (dell CS24-SC 16GB ram and 2 quad core xeons) and i migrated my ftp server from the old server to this and its so much faster for in-network transfers (dual GBE), but also my school got a new IT manager, this is great because our last literally did nothing, but now he has blocked all VPN i have tried and also blocked FTP (im not sure why the blockage of ftp though, i thought that was what a good bit os sites use when you download something?). and this a problem for me beacuse i have my own personal "cloud" which host a Trucrypt volume where i store most of my documents and other things i use on my comouter quite often,(since i know what im doing this for me was easier than carrying around a flash drive and losing it every other week). i also bring my own laptop sometimes but also prefer to use the machines in the techlab sometimes for simplicity's sake.
so my question is what is a good way around this(its summer so i can't try anything) but what are some good ways to access my home network from school?, i used to use the built in wondows 7 VPN connection but now thats blocked so what should i do? thanks in advance for any help! the PCs at my school are mostly XP, the laptop lab is Windows 7 and so if the front computers in the techlab.
also, you don't have to warn me the network admin is going to get pissed when i try and get past the blocks, if they get pissed at me let them.
Thanks!
You could divert traffic through other open ports on the network. (If any have been left open) So i'm sure you have a basic knowledge of ports but if you don't, certain applications have prefered ports (open holes in the network) that allow traffic of that type to pass through.
So FTP use ports 20 and 21 for example. A list of them can be seen HERE
So basically to block FTP traffic, all the admin might of done is blocked is the correspoding ports. To get around this, you could route the traffic through an alternate open port. You just need to scan the network for open ports (there are plenty of different methods and tools, just use google)
So say port 4455 is open, specify that you want to connect to a FTP server @ xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:4455 and on your home router, open the external port 4455 and redirect it at the internal IP of your FTP server on the standard ports 20 and 21 (saves you messing with the server conf)
And hey presto all should run as before. (VPN should initate in the same manner....hopefully)
However if this doesn't work, you could create a basic webpage on the FTP server that allows you to look at the storage index and download links via that. (The traffic should just appear as web traffic rather than FTP) Also if you require upload, you could create a php uploader allowing bi-directinal file transfer via a web interface.
Hope something in this wall of text helps or at least guides you on the right path.
You can easily bypass all the school restrictions with VPN unless you have tried any free vpn or bad quality vpn software. Since proxy goes MIA, the only alternative left for you to consider is a VPN as it is easily compatible with all IOS and android devices.
Basically, A VPN is much more sophisticated Internet liberation tool as compared to a proxy. So, firstly, it won’t be easy for your network management personnel to hinder its operations. Secondly, a VPN is much more secure as compared to a proxy. A VPN not only helps you unblock everything at school; but, it also enhances your security and protects your data from unauthorized access.
Based on VPN’s performance and users’ feedback, I found the list of 5 best VPNs to unblock everything at school.
Source: http://www.vpnranks.com/how-to-unblock-websites-at-school/
Maybe this thread is dead... but just in case.
Try OpenVPN... which is SSL based. My guess is that they are doing either port based blocking or stateful packet inspection. Unless they are really evil, they aren't blocking SSL.
It would be impossible to block port 443, if they block port 443, then the entire internet would be severely cripples the network overall
Just FYI, this post has been edited by someone other than myself. I am severely annoyed and concerned to that there is active censorship upon this forum now.
Fair enough if a moderator asks me to change a post, I will. But doing it without my knowledge is not right. Considering what RTW touts about privacy and freedom of speech, this seems to say the complete opposite.
I await a response from the person who changed said post.
The original post ACTUALLY looked like this:
In response to that the thread had no activity since 10 months ago.
Try OpenVPN like NetBandit said. The the IT Manager will never block SSL/TLS packets. PPTP which is the standard Windows VPN uses GRE protocol port 47, and TCP port 1723. He's probably just blocking GRE packets. OpenVPN is just standard TCP/IP with SSL tunneling.
by default proxy and filtering systems like barracuda are not filtering secure connections.