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

On Dec 15, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Luke Schierer wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Pete Phillips <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> -----
> 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 ?

If you're using openssh, try it's -D option:

ssh -N -D8000 firewall.server.domain.name

This tells openssh to act as a SOCKS4 proxy. You can then tell gaim to 
use localhost:8000 as a SOCKS4 proxy and leave the server unmodified 
(host.smtl.co.uk:5005).

Ronnie



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