SSH Tunnel

cryingthug · 08-22-2011, 06:10 AM

I am running this command to connect to my router back at home.

Code:

ssh -p 22 -N -L 2222:192.168.1.99:443 cryingthug@23.131.42.96

I have configured firefox manual proxy for:

SOCKS Host: localhost

Port: 2222

Now I am able to connect to my router and even log into it successfully, but I am not able to get to any websites. Why is that?

I have firefox 3.5.16

What have I done wrong?

bret381 · 08-22-2011, 07:09 AM

just a simple ssh cryingthug@23.xxx.xx.xx should work

by the way, I hope you have a strong password putting your username and ip out there

for all the world to see.

Noway2 · 08-22-2011, 08:33 AM

To use an SSH server as a (socks) proxy with Firefox pointing to localhost, I typically use the following with key based authentication

Code:

ssh -CND 9999 <user>@<domain>

If it works, you won't see anything in your SSH terminal window, but you should be browsing using your home as the IP address. You can also use the about:config in Firefox and use your remote host for the DNS instead of your local connection point DNS (hint: search for dns in the about:config).

Edit, you are using port 2222, where I normally use 9999