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<p>If you are not averse to having Python installed the remote computer, and can live without UDP, you could give Sshuttle a try:</p>
<p>https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle</p>
<p>Works well for forwarding more than just a few ports - i.e. a whole network - (assuming you can run Python on the far end - think port forwarding).</p>
<p>Kelly<br />KB0GBJ </p>
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<div class="message_header"><span>Sun Dec 02 2012 09:41:18 PM CST</span> <span>from "Justin Krejci" <jus@krytosvirus.com> </span> <span class="message_subject">Subject: Re: [tclug-list] vnc/rdesktop</span></div>
<div class="message_content">To add to eriks socks proxy comments, firefox and perhaps other browsers can also tunnel its DNS queries through the socks proxy as well for added privacy. <br /><br /><br />-------- Original message --------<br />From: Erik Anderson <erikerik@gmail.com> <br />Date: <br />To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list@mn-linux.org> <br />Subject: Re: [tclug-list] vnc/rdesktop <br /> <br /><br />On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77@gmail.com> wrote:<br />> Does anyone know of examples of on line services that use<br />> tunneling? I've not found much.<br /><br />No, but I suspect that's due to the fact that learning the few<br />command-line flags for tunneling is a bit higher learning curve than<br />most people are willing to put up with. That said, ssh tunnelling is<br />*immensely* useful for day-to-day development/sysadmin type<br />activities.<br /><br />I use it exclusively to connect to our EC2 cluster, in lieu of a<br />full-fledged VPN. It's fast, simple, reliable, and doesn't require any<br />additional configuration on the server side of things.<br /><br />As an example of how I use ssh tunneling on a near-daily basis: Sequel<br />Pro, a MySQL client for OSX, supports accessing the remote DB over an<br />ssh tunnel. So all you need to do is give Sequel Pro the ssh server<br />name, your username, and db credentials and Bob's your uncle. Instant<br />secure, remote database access.<br /><br />Oh, I did think of one very popular service that leverages ssh<br />tunnelling - github. When pushing commits to any repository on github,<br />you're tunnelling git over ssh<br /><br />-Erik<br />P.S. I know this has been discussed on the list before, but it's<br />useful enough to bear repeating: One more frequent use case is giving<br />yourself a secure SOCKS-compatible proxy. This is very useful on<br />public, untrusted networks to allow you to tunnel all of your browsing<br />traffic through a secure tunnel. Assuming you have a linux server<br />somewhere at your disposal, just run:<br /><br />$ ssh user@host -D8000<br /><br />That will set up a dynamic (SOCKS) proxy on your localhost port 8000.<br />Then in your browser settings, just configure it to use localhost:8000<br />as a proxy.<br />_______________________________________________<br />TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota<br />tclug-list@mn-linux.org<br /><a href="http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list" target="webcit01">http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list</a><br /><br /><br />
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