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How to use IRC at school?

3 years ago by 257m to c/technology

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I want to use IRC/SSH at school but both seems to be blocked. I assume they blocked all ports outside of 80 and 8080. Is there anyway to get around this? Maybe a proxy? How would I set this up?

Kit 27 points 3 years ago

Maybe a web based client made it past their web filter. There's a lot of them out there.

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django 4 points 3 years ago

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krolden 17 points 3 years ago

Wireguard to home. If they block that then try tailscale it should work

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dinckelman 4 points 3 years ago

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lonewalk 2 points 3 years ago

+1 on this. Easiest way to get around school filters - used to have this setup when I was in high school (well, OpenVPN, but same thing just different VPN tech).

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nicman24 10 points 3 years ago

use a web irc client

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iopq 9 points 3 years ago

Yes, use a proxy. Usually 443 is not blocked either, so an SSL encrypted solution is hard to block

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TheDevil 9 points 3 years ago

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Max_P 8 points 3 years ago

There's a few WebSocket solutions out there. Basically looks like a normal HTTPS connection to something that uses a WebSocket, so unless they're decoding TLS and the HTTP session and somehow recognizes that this is a VPN and block it, it'll likely go through.

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LLovegood 7 points 3 years ago

An ssh tunnel over port 8080 might work

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i_am_not_a_robot 7 points 3 years ago

It's not unheard of for the usual IRC ports to be blocked because it used to be used for botnets. Some servers may have different ports.

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poopsmith 1 point 3 years ago

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netchami 1 point 3 years ago

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257m 1 point 3 years ago

They block Proton as well. Pretty much every vpn I've tried they've blocked. Even niche ones.

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netchami 2 points 3 years ago

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257m 1 point 3 years ago

I tried to access the site and I got websitw blocked by admin. I might have to wait till I get home to try it.

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