I would like to create a port forward to direct a port from one box to another. But, I want others on my network to be able to use the tunnel on my box. SSH is currently binding the port forward to localhost. How can I fix this using CentOS 4 (openssh 3.9)


Here is the the tunnel that currently works (but only on localhost)

In BSD I can place a bind host in addition to the bind port
-LlocalIP:80:remotewebserver:80


I looked at the man page and saw that there is a bind address flag '-b' but I cannot get that to work.
(Yes, I am doing this as root)

ssh -f -q -N -b localip -L80:remotewebserver:80 user@remote
(still only binds to localhost).

Look at the '-g' flag as well as the BindAddress option (or you can, as in BSD, supply local_iport:remoteort).

-g - that did it.. Never would have seen that.

As for prepending the hostname, it works on bsd, and does not like the syntax on linux. Looking at the man page, the version from centos does not make any mention that you can specify hostname.


Thank you very much.

Odd, my manpages (Ubuntu) do show the hostname. But in any case, -g usually works.