2007-03

SSH Local Port Forwarding Made Easy

I’ve been using this for a while now, and have found it a great little trick for accessing services that are blocked due to a firewall.

It’s pretty simple, you just have a few parts to the command string.  The first command argument tells ssh to forward a local port (LP) to a remote machine Remote) on a remote port (RP).  The second part is something you’re probably familiar with, the destination that you’re connecting to (Destination).

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Problems with AllPeers in Firefox

I found out recently, like a lot of people, that the AllPeers Firefox extension went Open Source. So naturally, I realized the hype it created and installed it.

Unfortunately, I never tested it, because none of my friends wanted to install it, so there it sat right there in my Firefox installation, dormant. It wasn’t until today that I had problems with it.

I restarted my computer today, and tried to start up Firefox, and it did nothing… So I started up the console, and started Firefox. It started starting up fine, with loading of AllPeers, then had a segmentation fault error…

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