Idea: reverse socks proxy

Markus Friedl markus.r.friedl at arcor.de
Fri Jan 8 02:50:09 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:42:03PM +0100, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> This is super cool, but shouldn't require a server patch. A remote  
> port forward should just come back to the client's socks parser, and  
> the sockets should be provided locally instead of remotely.   How are  
> you using remote now?

this simple patch just reuses the client socks decoder on
the server side.

i also tried doing the parsing on the client side instead, but it
requires much much more changes in the ssh channel code, so i'd
rather avoid this.


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