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Beginner Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 22

I love to play my mud from work but recently due to abuse of AOL IM they have blocked all the non standard ports. Now I have a shell account and I can use SSH to get into that and then telnet into my mud but its really a pain and none of the *nix clients can hold a candle to zmud so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how I might be able to use the proxy ability with zmud to connect to the mud any advice would be useful and appreciated thanks

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

There has been a rather long discussion on using putty for just such situations. I would suggest you search the forums, and review that thread.

Beginner Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 22

I have and unfortunly I don't quite understand how to do it because I have tried I don't know what to do .. maybe if someone could tell me what info to put into putty and then how to make zmud connect to the tunnel that would help me thank you

Novice Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Russia

1. Download putty. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
2. Launch it, in "Session" menu check "SSH" radio button, and enter your host address of SSH server.
3. Go to "Tunnels" menu. Enter 7000 in field "Source port", yourmudhostname:port in field "Destination", press "Add" button.
4. Go back to "Session" menu, enter any session name you like in "Saved Session" field, press "Save" button (you can use it later).
5. Press "Open", then enter your login/password in session window.
6. Launch zMUD, select your character, press "Edit".
7. Enter 127.0.0.1 in "Host" field and 7000 in "Port" field.
8. Press "Save" button.
9. Connect and enjoy. :)

Beginner Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 22

DUDE YOU ROCK! I love you man BUT how did you know that port 7000 wouldnt be blocked? Very Happy

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Novice Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 45 Location: Russia

You can use any port that is not already used by system services.