Status of Bugzilla #1153

[Simon Vallet]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:47:50 -0500
"Corey Smith" <corsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/21/06, Simon Vallet <svallet at genoscope.cns.fr> wrote:
> 
> Instead of forwarding your X sessions plaintext through the internal
> network couldn't you just ssh into the internal machine with X
> forwarding on as well?  I assume the problem is with exporting your
> DISPLAY from the internal machine to the value obtained when X11
> forwarding occurs on the ssh server?

We could indeed do so, but decided a long time ago against using ssh
to tunnel X11 connections on the internal network for performance
reasons -- X11 over ssh is quite slow, and can rapidly become unusable,
especially when the target servers are not the newest gear available.

Simon