Allow remote hosts for remote forwarded ports

[Darren Tucker]

Jim Knoble wrote:
> Circa 2005-03-01 19:45:35 +0100 dixit Rene Rebe:
> 
> : ssh me at some-host.tld -R 8080:localhost:80
> 
> Is 'localhost' really what you want there?  That forwards port 8080 on
> some-host to port 80 on the same machine.

No, it forwards port 8080 on some-host to port 80 on the machine running 
the ssh client.

> : However I had to notice that this only binds to the loopback interface 
> : and not to all. For -L there is the -g option to low connects to locally 
> : forwarded ports for remote hosts. As far as I can see there is no 
> : equivalent for remotely forwarded ports.
> : 
> : Is there any reason this is not implemented?
> 
> It's implemented in sshd; you need to have 'GatewayPorts' set to 'yes'
> in sshd_config on the remote end.

Also note that recently (ie yesterday) support was added for fine-grained 
control of which address to bind to for remote SSH2 requests.  See:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413

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