"first" computer on the internet

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Sat Jul 19 20:04:31 CDT 2008


der Mouse wrote:
> I'm typing this over an ssh session run over IP tunneled through
> port-53 UDP.  The place I'm staying has wireless "Internet".  But turns
> out they severely cripple it unless you pay - but their crippling lets
> port 53 through, apparently without checking that the traffic is
> actually DNS traffic.  So I'm just tunneling on port 53.

But how did you know that before you got there to set up the other end 
of the tunnel?  Or do you always leave an sshd listening on 53?
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