Binding to specific IPs/ports

[Wojtek Pilorz]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, xercist wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:25:54 -0600
> From: xercist <xercist at lammah.com>
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Binding to specific IPs/ports
> 
> Sorry if this is the wrong place to post, I'm not a developer.
> 
> OpenSSH seems to be capable of binding to any given list of IP
> addresses, on any given list of ports. What it can't seem to
> do, however, is be given any combination of these.
> 
> Lets say I want to bind to 1.1.1.1:22 as well as 2.2.2.2:80.
> (I choose 80 knowing it is the http port, just for that purpose,
> because some people are behind firewalls and cannot get out
> on ports other than 80.)
> 
> The only way to do this would require also listening on 1.1.1.1:80,
> and if I'm running something else there (like a web server :),
> it doesn't work.
> 
Couldn't you just start two instances of OpenSSH, e.g. using two separate
configuration files?

Or am I missing somthing?
> 
> It seems to me this is just an issue regarding how openssh loads
> its conf file, and would not be too hard to implement in future
> versions, for one of you developers :)
> 
> Please let me know.
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Best regards,

Wojtek