Allow remote hosts for remote forwarded ports

Jim Knoble jmknoble at pobox.com
Wed Mar 2 08:33:02 EST 2005


Circa 2005-03-02 08:17:40 +1100 dixit 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.

Urp.  Darren's right, of course.  I was already reading the '-L' switch
into that command-line...

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