Dynamic port remote listener - a BUG?

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Damien Miller wrote:

> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Today I tried using "dynamically assigned" port for remote listener, by
> > requesting listener on port 0. This is supposed to create a listener on a
> > port choosen by server. Everything seemed OK (the choosen port was sent back
> > to client), but forwarding was refused. So I checked the source.
> 
> it works for me on both portable and OpenBSD, with -R forwardings on
> the initial ssh commandline or set up using -O forward.

there is a bug in there though - is more than one -R 0:... foward is
created, the later ones will all direct their connections to the
destination specified for the first -R0 forward.

i'll look at it when i have slept...

-d