Remote port forwarding

[Markus Friedl]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:19:02PM +0200, Jose A. Rodriguez wrote:
> Active Internet connections (servers and established)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:9000          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
> 
> 	I've checked the code and the only use of the "gateway_ports" variable
> 	is when calling the getaddrinfo function (inside
> 	channel_request_local_forwarding).

in ssh1 channel_request_local_forwarding() is re-used by sshd.

> 
> 	The right behaviour should be to deny the port fordwarding request,
> 	shouldn't it?

you can see above that sshd only listens on 127.0.0.1:9000, and this
is what 'GatewayPorts no' means.

right now there is no option for turning off -R/-L style forwarding in
the server config.

-markus