[lug] Fwd: Can't get port forwarding to work right.

[Riggs, Rob]

Did you configure your browser to use a proxy server? In case you would need
to set up your browser to use localhost:80 as the proxy. It works. I used it
for a while to go through my home JB proxy when work set up local a MS Proxy
server.

In your case, why not just configure the browser to use server:8000 as the
proxy, and avoid the SSH tunnel?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hutnick [mailto:peter at fpcc.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:51 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] Fwd: Can't get port forwarding to work right.


I sent the following to the SSH mailing list as Security Focus and got no 
replies :-(

Maybe someone here can set me straight?

-Peter

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Can't get port forwarding to work right.
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 00:16:27 -0700
From: Peter Hutnick <peter at fpcc.net>
To: secureshell at securityfocus.com

Hello.

My situation is that I have a notebook I use around the house on 802.11b and
I desktop/server connected to my AP.  Junkbuster is running on that server
on
port 8000.  Since I am going to proxy anyway I figure I may as well ssh
tunnel the connection (and this is a dry run for POP3 and friends).

I'm doing "ssh -L 80:[server]:8000 [server]" which seems right.  When I do
this it gives me a root shell on the desktop/server system.  But no junk
gets
busted.  I tried substituting 8001 for 8000, which, AFAIK, should break my
web browsing ability on the notebook, since there is nothing listening on
[server]:8001.  It has no effect, which is to say I can still browse.

Tried substituting -R for -L, but that seems to be backwards.  Anyway, no
effect.

I'm clearly just not getting something.  Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Peter
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