Re: using gaim to communicate over ssh to a jabber server

On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:36:06PM -0500, Luke Schierer wrote:
> 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

Pete,

You might be able to get it to work by adding host.smtl.co.uk as an alias
to your loopback address (127.0.0.1) in /etc/hosts and specifying
host.smtl.co.uk as your jabber server.  This way the local client and
server think they are talking to the correct hostname.

If you are on windows the file is in your
<windows-dir>\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Cya,
Dale


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