Mining behind a firewall?

[kingcoin]

Is it possible to tunnel/forward traffic to port 8332 (under Linux) using ssh or similar If you're behind a firewall which is blocking 8332 and would like to run a miner?

[Revalin]

ssh -l 8332:some.server.com:8332 user@shell.server.com

[kingcoin]

Thanks, but I already tried that with little success. I had the following in my ssh config file:

Code:

Host test
  Hostname shell.server.com
  User user
  LocalForward 8332 some.server.com:8332

When I log in to user@shell.server.com I can do:

Code:

curl --user myrpcuser --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getwork", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://some.server.com:8332/

but if I run

Code:

ssh test or ssh -L 8332:some.server.com:8332 user@shell.server.com

then in a different shell:

Code:

curl --user myrpcuser --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "1.0", "id":"curltest", "method": "getwork", "params": [] }' -H 'content-type: text/plain;' http://localhost:8332/

I get

Code:

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

Is there some bitcoin proxy or similar I could run on shell.server.com so I could specify port 80 which the proxy would forward to some.server.com. I guess I might be able to do it with iptables...

[BookLover]

Not sure if this helps, but you can set bitcoin to use a port other than the default one.

[kingcoin]

Yes. But then I need some kind of proxy to forward to a different port like I asked above.


miner@80 ---> firewall ---> proxy maps 80 to 8332 ---> mining pool@8332

[Schleicher]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=146908.0

[kingcoin]

Thanks! I wasn't aware of pools using port 80 and 443