No Netflix? No problem!
Posted: November 22, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »At work, they block Netflix streaming for obvious reasons. However, they don’t block outbound TCP connections on every port, which is the only way you can stop me from looking at what I want. I have a Linode VPS that I use for a screen’d copy of irssi which connects to Undernet and bitlbee for IM (I’ll do a post on that sometime). I have a script that keeps that connection nailed up that looks like:
until ssh -t -o "ServerAliveInterval 1" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 5" -D 1080 -R 8000:localhost:8000 some.host screen -x; do echo "Server 'ssh' crashed with exit code $?. Respawning.." >&2 sleep 1 done
Basically, that little shell script makes sure SSH stays nailed up and connected to my VPS, port forwards port 8000 to localhost for my web development stuff I play around with, and today I added -D 1080 which creates a SOCKS5 Proxy on port 1080 that will tunnel through SSH turning
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I use FoxyProxy in Firefox to automatically tunnel Netflix through the SOCKS proxy. I could set it up in Chrome which is my primary browser, but this way I don’t have to turn the Proxy on and off between home and work. I rarely have time to watch anything at work, but at least now I can.
