SSH tunnel for Adium Accounts

Sometimes you'll be at a place where your IRC client can't connect to something like irc.freenode.net.  This is where 'behind corporate firewalls' turns into 'behind enemy lines'.  IRC is invaluable because there are people who can help you with your problems... but they are on the outside. Here is how I solve that for a Mac OS running Adium as my IRC client. First, you need a place on the internet you can ssh into.  If you have an AWS machine, that can work.  You run the following command: ssh -D 127.0.0.1:3128 foo@some-server.com This opens up the proxy connection.  Next on Adium, when you look at the accounts, you can input the following: Doing this allows me to see things on the #docker, #xcat IRC channels.