webproxys, firewalls and quakeworld

podgeen

we dont have access to an unfirewalled machines
we can play quake for the labs alright cause we have access to unfirewalled machines so just get someone to run a qizmo.
We have access to skynet but only ssh access.

Looks like nDGman and nDPodgeen wont be online.

Koopa

ssh is all you need
just checked the qizmo website, they dont have a unix version anymore, only windows and linux.. ask sonic if skynet is running linux, or if he can get linux programs working on skynet, if he can, then youre sorted

new website for qizmo is http://www.udpsoft.com/qizmo/

podgeen

ah come on sam im not that slow..
yeah skynet is running linux
i could probably get one of the admins to run something for us maybe.. bit of hassle but maybe

podgeen

how does qizmo work with ssh?
explain if you can. i cant see anything in the readme

Koopa

download the linux version of qizmo on skynet here:

http://www.udpsoft.com/qizmo/2.91/qizmo-2.91-intel-linux-glibc.tar.gz


(use wget or lynx or something, if you dont have ftp access to skynet)

on skynet, type
tar -zxvf qizmo-2.91-intel-linux-glibc.tar.gz
to extract it, then type "nohup ./qizmo -p 27501 -q &"

then connect to skynet:27501 using quakeworld
then type
,connect <server>

ask sonic if you have problems, its the easiest way

you dont need to be an admin to be able to run a proxy, so long as you run it on a port over 1024 (like 27501, etc)

to turn off the proxy, you can type "ps auxw | grep podgeen" (if your username is podgeen), and then type "kill -15 <process ID>", eg. if qizmo is running under process 2342, type "kill -15 2342"
if kill -15 processid doesnt work, then do kill -9 processid, usually need to do this if the program (qizmo) hangs



[This message has been edited by Koopa (edited 31-08-2001).]

podgeen

yeah i had downloaded it and untared it
i had it running on a default port

ill try the run command you gave me now and ill let you know..

we only have ssh port to skynet so how will it connect on that port??

Koopa

ahhhhh, so skynet blocks access to all ports over ip except ssh from your pc, right, then you cant do it

best bet is to look for another unix machine, like skynet, which IS firewalled, what usually happens then is, they figure "the machines firewalled anyway" so they let you have full access to its ports, and usually its a "special" machine so skynet might allow full access from that machine to itself, so u could run a qizmo on this hypothetical second machine, and basically connect over this to skynet.. look for another machine you might have access to, like maybe file-storage inside college, or something

El_Presidente

So Sam, to go play Qw in DCU we would just tunnel through one of the free engineering machines?

podgeen

I hope there is a solution to this.
We are behind a firewall here in UL. We have no ports available to us except the web proxy. Is it possible to tunnell quakeworld packets you through this? Does anyone know if this can be done or if it has been done before. We have a decent connection a 34meg pipe and its not right not being able to play quake.
some help on this would be great. It doesnt have to be quakeworld have anyone managed to tunnell any multiplayer games through a web proxy??

Koopa

you cant play quake through a proper web proxy, like you lads have in UL..

the only way you could, is if someone ran qizmo or something on one of the unfirewalled unix machines, like skynet, or left it running on some pc in an unfirewalled lab

Koopa

yup

Gavin

hahahah .. two years later....

Gav

podgeen

some skynet lads say it can be done using ssh tunnel that they used it for other stuff...
but that it would work for quake but would probably be laggy... depends on how laggy i supposee...

Robbo

Cant get QW through the infernal NUI,G firewall. There are, afaik, NO machines outside of this abomination, including the Compsoc server. I am, however, friendly with the compsoc admins.

Wasnt there a BW qizmo running on port 80?

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Rob.

"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die".

Gerry

If you could get one of the admins on skynet, to forward connections from your machine, up to port 27501, I reckon that would work. Eg, they would set it up so that connections to port 22 on skynet, originating from your ip, would get forwarded to port 27501.