Thread: Telnet on N900
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gkuenning is offline gkuenning
2010-06-30 , 20:28
Posts: 67 | Thanked: 36 times | Joined on May 2010 @ Claremont (LA), California
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Originally Posted by Creamy Goodness View Post
now i can see which ports WIND is blocking. they should change their motto to "join the conversation ON PORT 80 ONLY" or "unlimited internet (www only!)"
jerks
One of the first things I did on my phone was to install openvpn. Fortunately, the vpn server on my desktop, and the various clients, were already set up, so getting the phone to join wasn't hard.

My VPN server listens on 1194 (the default) but also accepts proxied connections via the Apache server running on port 80. So when I'm stuck on one of those 80-only nets, I can just route everything through the vpn (I have a script to do that) and have complete freedom.

Since I set this configuration up, I've encountered one network that proxied port 80 and thus interfered with proxying my VPN. Fortunately, that net allowed 1194 so I was able to work through that route.

Of course, this assumes that you're in a position to set up a server on a static IP address.