THE TITLE IS A TYPO: TSOCKS, NOT TSCOKS
TSOCKS, NOT TSCOKS
Hey guys,
I'm at a school with most ports blocked/various other protections on the network. I would like to tunnel to Steam. Our Advanced Computing Association club has multiple servers in a so-called DMZ, with no port blocks and the like. I asked an ACA member how to tunnel, and he said ssh to an ACA server and then use tsocks to send a connection through the tunnel. Currently I do the following:
ssh -D 9999 dubslow@sand5.aca.[hostname]
in one terminal, which works fine, then Ctrl+Shft+T to another terminal and run
tsocks
which "resets" the terminal, as in runs all the bash startup commands again. From what my friend and the tsocks manual say, that's just tsocks applying its settings. So after 'tsocks' and the terminal resetting, I use
wine C:\\\Program\ Files\\Steam\\Steam.exe
except that it still acts like it's not getting the internet. I can't think of any way to test the internet, because 'ping' in general does not work on campus, even from the server in the DMZ. EDIT: I just tried installing elinks via apt-get from the tsocks'ed terminal, and it worked fine, so I think I'm using tsocks wrong.
In my tsocks.conf, I have the following:
server = 127.0.0.1
server_type = 5
server_port = 9999
All I can think of is that I'm using tsocks wrong, but going through the manual and tsocks.conf manual hasn't helped. I know it's possible because my friend can do it, although I can't ask him for help because he has since rescinded his permission for me tunneling, and doesn't not know that I still am. (I have approval from other ACA members with root to tunnel.)
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