Heya guys, I've been in this Uni for a while and I've really been missing the IRC usage I could get at home. Their firewall is blocking a shitload of ports, including the ones needed for IRC.
Tor probably won't help much, as IRC networks often block exit nodes. I think you should pay for a shell account, ssh into it, and run a command-line IRC client like BitchX or irssi there.
how about trying sockscap 32 (google it), you need to find your uni's socks-serveradress (ask your IT-depm mine gave it up without any problems) and the configure sockscap and run the programs you'd like to use - THROUGH the sockscap.
Works fine with wow, itunes and other programs where i can't configure the proxy-settings (which i figure is what you have problems with)
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Anonymous2006-10-31 14:49
route your connections thru shh or even telnet shell somewhere, lol
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Anonymous2006-10-31 15:02
A key to getting around stupid campus port blocks is to just try ports they might not have thought of. Try the entire 6665-6669 range, 7000, as well as weird ports like 5555 and 9999. Check the website for the IRC network to see what they have available on particular servers, and just try every port they have available.
Espernet allows 5555 on one of its servers, for example, which is what prompted me to open that on my own, so now guys I know at college can connect just fine despite normally being blocked.
Other than that, you can try connecting to an HTTP proxy, which clients like mIRC support, leaving the campus network oblivious to the kind of traffic going over it in most cases, unless they also prevent persistant connections like fags.
If all else fails, you can setup an SSH server at your house, or have a buddy do it on a machine of his, and accept connections on either port 80 or 443 (HTTPS). Another guy I know who has a really locked down campus does this to tunnel back through a machine running at his house, and then can get out to the net from there.