Hi,

unfortunately, my ISP blocks the ssh port.

1) How would I go about changing it?
2) How would I configure forwarding with a afraid.org?

-thanks in advance

Nasty! Don't support that - get a new ISP

Anyway:
1) Have a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config, or otherwise any file with sshd in the title under /etc. You will see a "Port 22" line somewhere in it, very likely near the top.

2) Not sure what you mean... what is it you want to achieve?

Actually you might can talk to your ISP about open port policy, who knows maybe they will help you to keep your service. About forwarding on afraid.org, you might want to consult their forum with this question. I did a search and found a lot of information on webforwarding with afraid.org. Also who knows if the ssh port is disable, maybe 1000 and below are disable by your provider. You might have to use port 8080. But like I said talk to your ISP, who knows they might can help you out.

thanks for the responses!

I did infact talk to them directly, after they recieved my complaint from the CRTC

They blocked these ports for 'security' reasons-- 'trying to stop the spread of viruses etc'. However, they don't block these ports on business plans! Plus, they only blocked out the popular ones, ie 80, 20-23 etc. Higher, vulnerable ports were completely ignored

My only alternative strictly enforces caps of 5GB down, and ~1GB up, whereas I can download a terrabyte with my current ISP w/o hearing anything..They have a gigantic backbone thats going mostly unused.

Well, instead of SSH'ing my IP, I wanted to SSH ssh.mydomain.com, but I'm not exactly sure which settings I should tick.

to ssh to a domain from the net, just use a site like zoneedit or an existing top level domain, or a generic dyndns site. as long as the ip resolves on the net, that's all there is to it.

acid_kewpie is dead right, the only thing to remember is you will need to pass the new port number to ssh on the command line (or in the config where appropriate for your client)

It worked! At first it just hung, and did nothing. I went to afraid.org, and instead of using webforward, I created an 'A' type subdomain and pointed it to my domain, then ssh'ed
ssh -p 8081 ssh.mydomain.com (for reference purposes)

works great