I use a proxy server to connect to the Internet since I have a private class B IP (172.17.120.5) and am behind a firewall and that way the net I am on is configured. I have to use socks for passive ftp and telneting. Recently the admin of www.linux.org.il, which is not found on the private net I am connected to and does have a full Internet IP (192.116.202.69) has suggested that the 2 machines will be connected with ssh. However when I tried to connect I get:
[09:29:03 /tmp]$ socksify ssh -v www.linux.org.il SSH Version OpenSSH-1.2.2, protocol version 1.5. Compiled with SSL. debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug: Applying options for * debug: ssh_connect: getuid 1000 geteuid 0 anon 0 debug: Connecting to www.linux.org.il [192.116.202.69] port 22. debug: Allocated local port 643. And that is it. It keeps waiting and I had to ^C it. The admin of the other machine says he can see in his logs attempts from my IP (172.17.120.5) at the times I claim I have tried to establish the ssh connection. He also says that contrary to his first suggestion, he now believes that we can not get connected with ssh because I do not have an Internet IP. 1) Are there ways for the 2 machines to get a ssh connection? Perhaps the configuration of the other machine is not appropriate for the situation I have described? Maybe a VPN or something similar will work? 2) Beside a full Internet IP are there things I could ask from the net admin of the private network I am on in order to get this ssh connection to work? I believe that it is worth mentioning that I can successfully socksify telnet and successfully socksify passive ftp to the machine I want to establish the ssh connection with (www.linux.org.il). -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.