I am trying to ssh to remote Host B, but network access control governs I am only able to do this via Host A. How would I go about doing that?
Have tried creating a tunnel to Host A
ssh -f -N -D 2222 user@hostA
Then when creating new ssh connections from Local specifying tunnel port to tunnel those connections, but cant get this working..
ssh -L 2222:hostB:22 hostA
Hosts involved:
Local
Host A (local intranet)
Host B (internet)
Flow of traffic:
Local > HostA > HostB
Any pointers would be super hand.. thanks in advance!
Best Answer
Your thought of using a dynamic port forward for this will never work. Think through it logically - you need to open a local port that forwards from your local machine, through hostA, to port 22 on hostB. There are a couple of ways you can achieve this. First, the inelegant, manual way:
First, set up the tunnel:
Then, connect to hostB:
The preferred option is to use the ssh client's
ProxyCommand
directive, which can automate this for you. Add something like this to your~/.ssh/config
:After doing this, you can do this:
...and the ssh client will take care of everything for you.