Tunneling through proxies

The IT department at work setup a new proxy blocking vital sites like gmail, hotmail out, I guess they are afraid of what users might drag within the firewall. They also log all sites you visit.
So now I have to go around this in some way. To do this I use ssh over port 443 to a old pc (Pentium 90MHz, 24MB ram) at home running Linux (Windows can work as well).

You find an excellent tutorial how to do it at http://www.buzzsurf.com/surfatwork/

In short it works like this:
In you browser at work (Firefox of course) connects to a ssh client (Putty) that handles to ssh tunneling to your ssh server at home. The ssh server gateways your traffic to gmail etc.

I used a ssh server on the Linux machine, I just change its configuration so it also listen to port 443.

ssh server on Windows missing dll cygintl-2.dll
In the tutorial they describe how to run a ssh server on Windows, I tried that, got connected but then the server complains about a missing dll cygintl-2.dll.
I didn't find any good description how to fix this problem so I'll put it here.
Steps to retrieve cygintl-2.dll:

1. goto the home of cygwin http://www.cygwin.com
2. Download setup.exe from here.
3. Run setup.exe, select 'Download without installing'
4. Select a download directory, and just download all (14MB)
5. Open your download directory and select folder \release\gettext\libintl2
6. They you will find a file named libintl2-0.12.1-3.tar.bz2
7. This is a compressed file so you need to extract the dll using 7-zip or similar tool.
8. extract cygintl-2.dll to the /bin folder where you installed openssh server.
9. Remove the downloaded cygwin files if you not going to explore it further.
10. Start or restart your ssh server.
11. Done!

Hope this will help at least one out there in cyberspace, at least I have put it on 'paper', my memory is full!

Vacation 2006

Weather in Sweden this summer has really been great. Warm and sunny, unfortunately too dry for the blue-berries in the forest.
Photo from Goteborg/Sweden harbor