This is a followup to my (rather idiotic) post from earlier today in
which I was trying to forward an ssh port from a remote machine using
the "-L" option. Oops.
But I'm still having trouble.
Background: our temporary internet connection won't allow incoming
connections of any kind, but we do have a host on the Internet which has
a real IP and an sshd process running. I want to initiate an ssh
connection from our internal net to the outside host, such that a port
on the outside host is forwarded to the sshd process on one of our
internal machines.
Now the command line I'm using is this (as root):
ssh -v -g -R 2000:localhost:22 $REMOTEHOST
The command appears to complete successfully, and I end up with a login
shell on the remote box. But in the debugging output there is no
mention of port forwarding, successful or otherwise, other than X
forwarding, and any attempt to connect to port 2000 on the remote box
comes back "connection refused".
What might I be doing wrong?
Thanks,
-m
