Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:42:18 +0000 (UTC) From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80? Message-ID: <loom.20120713T203822-307@post.gmane.org> References: <CAPj0R5KJ=0yFcQG5azYfCS73oWLAfJhf4NpAz5Oozo4N-vYQyg@mail.gmail.com>
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Kaya Saman <kayasaman <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked > at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is > our companies 'security' policy to block FTP. > > At present they are running a whole bunch of CentOS based boxes and > VM's which of course can be run through port 80 when using YUM. > > How does one get round this issue as my superiors are telling me that > opening up FTP is a security risk and therefor don't want to proceed? > > I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get > software. > > Can anyone sugget anything? > > Regards, > > Kaya Hi, > ... > We simply have it [ed: FTP] banned on a Juniper firewall. So http is being > proxied by a web appliance but that's it... nothing else. > ... > Yep. It's up to your proxy server whether it's going to handle FTP or only > HTTP (and/or HTTPS). > ... > We have an 'appliance' based proxy and as company policy FTP should be > restricted, ie. not active on this as it's a security risk. Regardless of whether your corporate proxy can not handle FTP by its limited capability or by company's policy, there is a solution called "proxy chaining". http://www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/faq/index.htm How to bypass corporate proxy? What is HTTP proxy server? ... HTTP Proxy Chaining What is proxy chaining (proxy to proxy)? FTP through a proxy server: problems and solutions jb
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