Re: Curiosity -D

From: Richard E. Silverman (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 07/22/03

  • Next message: Greyson M Fischer: "Re: Curiosity -D" 
    Date: 22 Jul 2003 17:19:45 -0400

    >>>>> "GMF" == Greyson M Fischer <gfischer@mrdoc.cc> writes:

        GMF> I've been using SSH for a while now, but was browsing through the
        GMF> man pages (looking for some help on complex port forwarding
        GMF> (second issue)) and was curious as to a practical usage for the
        GMF> '-D <port>' paraemter. Any clarification?

    TCP forwarding when the destination sockets are not known in advance, and
    thus are not amenable to static forwarding with -L. For example, you
    might establish an "ssh -D ..." connection to a gateway connected to a
    private network, and configure your web browser to use the "dynamically
    forwarded" port as a SOCKS proxy.

    Of course, it would be much more useful if OpenSSH implemented socks5.
    Socks4 only allows the client to specify IP addresses for the remote
    connections, which means the client must look up names for the remote
    resources locally -- which is likely to fail. Note that the analogous
    feature in the ssh.com software does do socks5. 

    -- 
  Richard Silverman
  res@qoxp.net
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