[ILUG] ssh cleverness?

[Conall O'Brien]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 05:45:53PM IST, bobb 
<bobb at redbrick.dcu.ie> incoherently babbled:

> Frankly I've _never_ found it usefull, its _always_ annoying.
> If I run firefox on a remote machine, its because I want to run firefox
> on the remote machine _not_ on the local machine[0].

Personally, I find using locally installed Firefox and a dynamic SSH 
tunnel much more responsive.


Simply configure Firefox to use host "localhost" and port
"$dynamic-ssh-tunnel-port" and remove all other explicit proxy settings
(ie HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, WAIS, etc).


Then you're effectively created a (non-caching) proxy through your ssh
session to the remote node, so all your web traffic is routed through
the remote node. 


Handy for accessing places that check for certain IPs, (intranets, 
etc...)
 
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