(sslh) VPN over SSH: State of the art?

[Malcolm]

On 1/4/2019 3:20 AM, Thomas Güttler wrote:
> yes, I that's not what I had in mind. But why not? I think it is a valid 
> solution.
> 
> I am a bit afraid: If setting it up fails, we loose control over our 
> remote machines,  since ssh is the only permanent connection we have.

sslh sounds like a lovely and simple solution to the problem. I've so 
far dodged this bullet by phasing out http (80) on most of my hosts, 
which has provided a "sneaky" UDP/TCP port 80 option for clients behind 
overly restrictive firewalls needing to connect to my VPN endpoint.

I used to be able to "sacrifice" telnet (23), but the restrictive 
firewalls that block destinations by port # tend to include that one as 
well. Even ftp (20:21) seems to be on the chopping block.

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Why not run a backup sshd to listen on a different to allow access if 
your main 0.0.0.0:22 connection no longer works?

/usr/sbin/sshd -q -p 22222 (or whatever other port you can use to 
connect to the host in question)

Good luck!

=M=