Recently I got access to a server that somehow all the ports got blocked except for SSH, instead of waiting for a few weeks until the IT freeze and ports got opened up, I found that you can access the other ports via a technique called SSH tunneling if you have admin rights on the remote host.

ssh -L 9191:localhost:9191 -L 8080:localhost:8080 -L 8088:localhost:8088 user@host

This will ssh into the remote host and keep those three ports mapped from local client to remote host. However, this is fragile as if your ssh is broken, all the ports will be broken, and if your terminal is idle with a broken pipe, your tunnel is also break. There are other flags like run in background as daemon but if you chose that route, make sure you kill the ssh process when done, otherwise, you will never get back to your own 9191 🙂

Now you can access the port in your client browser just like below.