using gaim to communicate over ssh to a jabber server

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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:21:51 +0000
From: Pete Phillips <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: gaim-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Gaim-support] using gaim to communicate over ssh to a jabber server


Hi

I'd like to be able to open up an ssh connection to our main jabber
server from my home ADSL connection so that I can point gaim at a local
port and communicate with the server.

I tried 

ssh -v firewall.server.domain.name -L 5005:host.smtl.co.uk:5222 -N 
firewall.smtl.co.uk

the firewall routes the ssh connection throgh to our internal server.

I can't get gaim to talk to our jabber server (or rather can't get it to
work). I set the server as localhost, port 5005.

If I set Connect server to localhost, the jabber server complains that:

20041215T13:53:35: [notice] (localhost): bouncing a routed packet to 
pete@localhost from 10@c2s/80DDBA0: Unable to deliver, destination unknown

Any ideas what I should set the connect server field to ?

Regards
Pete

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