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SSH Tunneling

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

One thing I really feel bad about with this Isulong SEOph website of mine right now is I cannot actually visit my site! I get connection timeout errors. And this is only when I am at home. But when I am at work, I can seem to visit my site. And people I know in the Philippines can also visit this website. After doing a traceroute, which I do not 100% understand, this is what came out:

Hop IP Hostname Ctry
1 66.36.240.2 AS14361HOPONE-DCA c-vl102-d1.acc.dca2.hopone.net. US
2 66.36.224.248 AS0IANA-RSVD-0 gec3.core1.dca2.hopone.net. US
3 66.36.224.18 AS0IANA-RSVD-0 ge3-0.core1.iad1.hopone.net. US
4 206.223.115.141 AS2914NTTA-2914 equinixexchange-ash.flagtelecom.com. US
5 62.216.128.49 AS15412FLAG-AS so-1-1-0.0.cjr01.nyc007.flagtel.com. GB
6 62.216.128.134 AS15412FLAG-AS so-1-1-0.0.cjr03.lax001.flagtel.com. GB
7 80.77.0.22 AS15412FLAG-AS unknown.flagtel.com GB
8 58.71.0.68 AS9299IPG-AS-AP unknown.net.ph PH
9 [Unknown] [Unknown - Firewall did not respond]  
10 202.91.163.3 AS17452BITSTOP-AS-AP unknown.dagupan.com PH
11 202.91.163.60 AS17452BITSTOP-AS-AP [Reached Destination]www.isulongseoph.com.ph [No PTR] PH

Do you think I understand that? I don’t. But it seems hop 9 is not working well. Right ater net.ph. Is something wrong with net.ph? Or the firewall belongs to dagupan.com and I am getting blocked. Duh? I own the hosting account and the owner of the account is blocked? But we are not really sure what the real problem is right now. Except that I cannot access my own website through my connection from my ISP at home. But elsewhere I can access my own website. And I have actually been chatting with my wife to post for me in some of the previous postings.

And since this is the case, I have been playing around with Proxy.ph. Free plugging for them, too bad, they are down right now this very day I am posting on my Isulong SEOph blog. And if I can access my website through another connection except my own, then I can setup an SSH tunnel on my computer that cannot access my website and tunnel through my connection. And if I can do this at home, with a problematic connection, you can also do this a work where certain ports are blocked or some websites are blocked.*

With SSH Tunneling you can get through blocked connections at work. (assuming the SSH connections are blocked too.) Is your job preventing you from visiting certain sites? You can’t visit MySpace and you want to know how to get through the block MySpace access at work? You can’t chat at work because your IM’s are blocked at work and you want to know how to chat without getting blocked?

Whatever I did to solve my problem here, can also be used to get past some blocked connections you may also have at work. First is you need the SSH Tunnel software. You will also need a server with SSH access. Or even simply a hosting account with SSH access. Please note you will be using some bandwidth of your hosting server. You can also use your computer at home that is connected to the Internet with some high bandwidth connection.

Right now I use SSH Tunnel by RS4U, and I had no problems using it. But since I want to save on bandwidth of my server also, I use Microsoft Internet Explorer with the SSH Tunnel while my Firefox still uses the main connection.

Try configuring it and if ever you have problems, check the RS4U forums or post a comment below if you want to know how I setup my own browser.

*Author nor owner of this blog is not responsible for your actions if ever you get fired or reprimanded from your job for using an SSH tunnel. I personally know someone that got fired using an SSH tunnel at work since the IT guys were able to see him using Port 22 often which is the default SSH port.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Isulong SEOph Competition Checklist

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

We now come closer and closer to the end of the Isulong SEOph competition that ends on September 29, 2006 at 8:00pm Manila Time (+8GMT). Now is the start of the last 30 days of Isulong SEOph.

Just before getting too excited if ever you do have the potential to get into the top 10 wehre all these 10 Isulong SEOph websites will receive some prize, you got to make sure of some of the important Isulong SEOph rules and if ever you forgot any of them, there is still time to fix it up. Here are some of the very top 5 most important ones. (more…)

Popularity: unranked [?]

Isulong SEOph still dancing the night away

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

Former number 1 Gio redeems his number 1 spot as isulongseophil.com gets the yellow jersey with Rostom’s isulongseoph.org still staying close. Short stint number 1 websites Whin’s bicolbusinessdirectory/isulong-seoph and J.Angelo’s go-ogle.com/isulong-seoph drops back to 3 and 4 respectively. Benj’s isulongseoph.com.ph once again goes back to number 9 as Jozzua’s isulong-seoph.net and Jedi’s isulongseoph.ph follow in at 5 and 6 spots.

Two new entries for this month in page one are Moslemen’s isulongseoph.joomlamoro.com and Dhundee’s isulong-seoph.org at the 7th and 8th spot.

And clinging on to the first page is Noel’s noels-isulong-seoph.com. pinoynets.com/isulong-seoph/ is now out of the page 1 even if he had all the backlink power of 45,000 links going to his site.

Popularity: 3% [?]

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