port forwarding trouble

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 05:39:59PM +0100, Frederik Eaton wrote:
> > As Peter Stuge noted earlier, you can use HostKeyAlias to specify
> > the real name of the host you're connecting to over the forward.
> 
> So, I could just write a wrapper that always passes "-o
> HostKeyAlias=host:port" to ssh to get around the bug?

That, or add the following to ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Host tunnelhost
  HostKeyAlias real.host.name
  HostName localhost
  Port 2222

And then connect to it using:

ssh tunnelhost

Repeat for as many tunnelhosts as you want, just change Host,
HostKeyAlias and Port for each.


//Peter