ok, I sat down today and decided i want to bypass our firewall (it’s large company so proper firewall)

first off, we arent directly connected to the internet, need to go through a hub, second off most of the ip’s/hostnames are banned

so i grabbed amsn source (http://amsn.sourceforge.net probably the best alt msn ive seen) and activetcl (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/) opened the proxy.tcl in amsn source, searched and replaced all gateway.messenger.hotmail.com with 207.46.110.18, used activetcl to run it, told it i was using a http-proxy and boom bypassed all.

all i can say is piece of piss this took me 15 mins to do max 🙂

Im going to set up a proxyfowarding on my apache server so if that msn ip gets banned as well im going to work though my own dedicated server to work as a proxy between me and msn server

this can be used similarly to connect to all services, if you want to connect to ssh for instance, portfoward to 443 instead of 22 (secure connection anyway so should always work), if you want on irc, setup a bnc to something similar.