[HCoop-Help] SSH proxy help please?

[Chris Fallin]

Try "lauren at ssh.hcoop.net" -- hcoop.net itself resolves to deleuze,
which doesn't allow user logins, whereas (as you implied) you want to
use mire, which is aliased "ssh".

Chris

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 14:49, lauren <lauren at hcoop.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My office has an annoying content blocker that I'd like to get around by
> proxying through an SSH tunnel, if possible. The problem is that I don't
> really know how to do this. I tried following the directions I found on
> some websites like https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html and
> http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-forwarding-secure-browsing/
> but it didn't work. I don't know if its because I did it wrong or if its
> because mire doesn't allow what I'm trying to do. When I typed "ssh -D 8080
> lauren at hcoop.net" I got "Connection closed by 69.90.123.67".
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Lauren