I need some help with the corporate firewall where I work. I work a job where I sit a post all day and sometimes have nothing to do. I have a computer with internet access all day long, but telnet is closed on the Microsoft Proxy server that is running our connection.

So- the big question here is can I connect to TWGS through port 80 somehow? What about a telnet proxy; I've heard of them but I don't know if any are free or if they can can do what I want. Even after much Googling I can't figure that one out. I saw software that I could set up my own with but it would tie up my home phone line while I'm at work and won't fly with my wife.

So please, anyone with experience in this matter give me a shout out. Thanks.

-Sparkster

MS Proxy 2.0 won't let you have access to the port unless the Administrator turns it on. So you are locked out there. I doubt they will turn it on for you if they find out you wish to play a game while on company time.

Your best bet would be to use your dial-up account at work, if you have access to a phone line. Then hope your employer isn't snooping on you while you play the game. There is spyware or snooping programs that can tell them what you are running and capture your keystrokes.

Another way is to hack the proxy server or find a way to bypass it, which if found out would certinly get you fired. So don't even try that.

Convince someone to run a twar game on a port that isn't locked out.

Actually it goes beyond that. Depending on how big your company is, they most likely have a firewall in place with ACLs (Access Control Lists) that determine what traffic is or is not allowed. Additionally, any computer security person worth a Darn has logs that show what that firewall is stopping. We had a Sidewinder we used and were routinely getting hacked by a Holiday Inn in Ft. Walton Beach, Fl. Turns out it was spoofed and was actually comeing from a country in Europe. Anyway, point is that the more you bang away trying to get around stuff like that, the more they will pay attention to it. We keep an eye on the stuff trying to get in pretty much constantly....but we also check what is trying to get out since people have a tendancy to download and install software that contains malicious code in it. Best bet is simply don't try anymore. Unless you have a friend in your IT department that can give you a hand, eventually someone may notice the unusual traffic coming from your terminal and try and investigate. Kinda what I do where I'm at.

As to your original question, the only thing I can think of is if you setup a redirect from your home. You might try setting up a proxy at your house that will listen for telnet connections on port 80 and then redirect you out to where ever you are trying to go. You could setup the proxy so it only accepted connections from your work's IP address. Try going to http://www.broadbandreports.com/ip while at work and check your IP a couple of times to see that it stays pretty stable. Once you know your IP range you should be able to lock down the access to anything you setup.

Hope that gives you some info at least.

Thanks for all the replies so far. Here's a little more info: The people running the network are, well, (to be polite)neanderthals. Say the word Gigabyte to them and their eyes glaze over and they start drooling as if I'm talking quantum physics. We don't have an IT department- these people basically just reboot the machines in the event of a power failure/surge or wahtever might stop them. They probably had to be trained on where the power buttons are. All our computer repair is contracted out(since I'm a peon and they don't realize I could do it for them).
Pretty much I'm just looking for an already running redirect service that I could join. I can't do it from home since my connection involves dialup (for my upstream anyway, downstream is broadband wireless) and would tie up the phone. About the only thing I could do is convince a friend to run the service, which is iffy at best.

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http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.htm

Quite possibly if you run Portmapper, you may be able to take port 80 requests from your machine and map them to port 23 on whatever TWGS server you wish it to go to. Then just set your work machine to your home address, port 80, and then it will reroute to twgs.gameserver.tw port 23 or whatever you set it up for.

If the Proxy server allows more ports, you can configure each port to a different TW server. Like 25 for SMTP and 110 for Pop3.

Only problem is if they read the proxy logs, they will see you on port 80 for 2 to 4 hours and wonder why you are surfing so much to the same address. The same with the email ports, they will wonder why you are spending hours reading and sending email.

Your best bet is to find a friend to run a proxy server at their home for you. I'm not aware of any publicly open telnet proxies like what you want.