ssh -R only listening on lo

From: David Wolever (wolever_at_ftml.net)
Date: 09/16/05

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To: secureshell@securityfocus.com

    Hey,
    I was playing around with `ssh -R` last night, and found
    that (even with -g, if that switch applies to this) ssh
    would only listen on the loop-back (127.0.0.1) address.
    This means I can't connect back down the tunnel from the
    server to the client from anywhere except the server.
    The command line I used was:
    ssh -vgR 8888:mylaptop:80 myserver
    I looked through the verbose output and couldn't find much
    useful information.
    Is this something I'm doing wrong, or is this the way things
    are supposed to be? Is there a way I could work around it
    (with out starting ANOTHER tunnel the other way using -L
    from the remote host, that is >_~)?

    On my laptop, ssh -v gives me:
    OpenSSH_3.8.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005 (this is on a
    machine running OSX 10.4)
    On my server, ssh -v says:
    OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004

    Thanks,
    David 

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