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rhythmbox package

Play internet radio behind proxy/firewall

Asked by Faisal Ghifa

i cannot play internet radio unless it streaming via port 80. i connect my computer via corporate lan behind proxy that refuses port other well-known ports. can anyone solve this? (my internet connection trough this proxy).

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thanks for this question.

This problem can only be solved if you have another computer outside the firewall that you can use to build a tunnel through port 80 of the firewall, since you need something outside the firewall that redirects your ip packets from port 80 to the correct port of the internet radio server.

I hope this helps.

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Faisal Ghifa (mail4pink) said : 		#2

gee...

Mr. Ralph thanks for answer.

can you explain step by step how to configure ip tunneling in Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu gutsy 7.10 and i heard there is ip tunnel server/client. what is this mean?

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Best Sharar Ravitz (jewfro-macabbi) said : 		#3

If you have a machine at home running Ubuntu - it's easy. Install openssh-server package on your home machine. Take a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config - you need a open listen port, and a listen address (if you do not have a static ip then you'll need some type of dynamic resolution). Here's as example from my file:

# What ports, IPs and protocols we listen for
Port 22
Port 9999
# Use these options to restrict which interfaces/protocols sshd will bind to
#ListenAddress ::
ListenAddress 192.168.0.1
ListenAddress 127.0.0.1
ListenAddress your.domain.org

Replace "your.domain.org" with your ip address. Save the file and restart ssh:

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Then you can tunnel into you home machine from work:

ssh -D 9999 <email address hidden>

Now you point the radio software in proxy to yourdomain.org port 9999 socks 5 proxy.

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Faisal Ghifa (mail4pink) said : 		#4

Thanks Yeshara Ravitz, that solved my question.