-R port forwarding and remote host:port info

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Feb 17 12:52:29 EST 2009


Jeff Blaine wrote:
> sshd -ddd shows the following in the midst of an
> incoming "ssh -R 22220:faron:22 linus".  Obviously
> I want to see the word 'faron' somewhere but don't.
> 
> That seems like a bug to me.

It isn't.

sshd in this case only knows to listen on port 22220 and forward
connections. Only ssh knows about faron. I guess you'll see faron
if you run ssh -vvv.


//Peter


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