On 1999.11.17, Dorian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are thinking of letting the connection run from the internet
through a 'hole' in your firewall to a specific server then it's a
matter of the services that are available.
Any time a port is openend for outbound traffic through your
Telnet shouldn't be tunneled through SSH. SSH replaces the use of
telnet. See: http://www.employees.org/~satch/ssh/faq/
Almost anything can be tunneled across SSH, if you want to write the
code to do it, whats more important is the services that can be
connected to. For instance if you are
The point of tunneling is to go through firewalls
(well, in your case, anyway). This is why the
firewall is rendered useless.
If the endpoints of the SSH link have firewalling
capabilities you can regain a little bit of
security by firewalling the link at the endpoints
rather than the firewall
