Re: Are the BBC doing MotoGP at 18:45 via iPlayer or not?

Jim <blueflies@xxxxxxx> wrote in
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Champ <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's a polite way of saying
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=socks+proxy+putty

I just did that (-putty). For me, it is a trivial as:

ssh -2 -q -ND 9999 my.home.server &

and configuring socks to port 9999 on localhost (using *horror*, a
GUI).

I shall try it in June when I am abroad.

Admittedly, I have openssh-server already running on my server along
with the useful id_rsa.* keys in place but Rocket Science, it isn't.

<mode=CT>

I've been working in IT for 25 years, and I didn't understand a word
of that.

I will try to explain, if you like.

A "SOCKS proxy" is just a piece of software that can redirect internet
traffic. The reason why it might be helpful to solve the problem of
viewing iPlayer stuff is that if you run the proxy at a location
within the UK then the BBC will think that you are in the UK. So you
could access iPlayer from anywhere in the world with this technique.

"PuTTY" is a terminal client (like telnet) that runs on windows. Prawn
isn't using that, instead he types

"ssh -2 -q -ND 9999 my.home.server &"

ssh makes an encrypted remote connection to "my.home.server" which is
the internet address of a Linux machine that prawn has access to.

"-2" means use SSH protocol version 2 (an implementation detail)
"-q" means don't print out warnings/diagnostics
"-ND 9999" means don't execute a command, start a SOCKS server on TCP
port
9999 instead
"&" means do all of this in the background

Which is a long way of saying, this command starts a SOCKS proxy on
the remote machine "my.home.server".

Then you can go into your Internet Options, proxy configuration and
just enter a SOCKS proxy on my.home.server:9999 and all the web
browser traffic will be redirects via the proxy and you can view TV
abroad.

All of which means, approximately, "you need to have a computer in the
UK".

Which is surprisingly similar to what the BBC were saying in the first
place.

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Jeremy
R1200RT
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