> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Roy Tennant
> Sent: 28 February, 2006 14:56
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] blocked IRC
>
> An alternative is to first connect to a remote server and
> then IRC from there. That is what I do, but for different
> reasons (so I can keep the channel going in a screen session
> and therefore be able to scroll back when I reconnect). Dan
> turned me on to this technique.
> Roy
>
> On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
>
> > My university has blocked the standard IRC port due to
> massive trojan
> > traffic.  Does the freenode.net irc server allow any other non-
> > standard ports?  I checked their website, but their is no

Why couldn't you use a tcp proxy program.  There are hundreds on the
Web, Google should find them for you.  Here is how it basically works:

<http://nest.cs.uiowa.edu/22C178f00/article/12.html>


Andy.