backwards zebedee or ssh

[Charles Hines]

>>>>> "Glenn" == Glenn Newell <gnewell "at" synopsys.COM> writes:

Glenn> Lot of discussion in yesterday's vnc-list-digest about using
Glenn> zebedee through a firewall that doesn't allow inbound connections.

Glenn> All the discussion seems to be around running a VNC server outside the
Glenn> firewall and a VNC client inside.

Glenn> What about the other way around? Given your typical firewall, and no
Glenn> way to make changes, it is possible to do by running ssh in sort of a
Glenn> "backwards" mode.
...
Glenn> am I correct in that zebedee will not do the above? It doesn't seem to
Glenn> have the equivalent of "-R" on the client side.

I've actually been meaning to contribute a patch to the author of Zebedee to
basically do what you want (reverse the connection sequence so the client
waits for the server to connect to it) to be able to connect to a VNC session
at work from my home system, but haven't had a chance to do it yet.

It shouldn't be too difficult to do, but it hasn't been urgent enough for me
to rearrange some priorities to actually have time to work on it yet.  After I
finially get into my new house and get my cable modem though...then it'll be
more of a priority for me.

Hm...one other thing I was waiting for though was for Zebedee v2.0 to come out
because when I spoke with the author last he said he was trying to finish up
the documentation for it and I didn't want to have to redo the patch entirely.
And now I see that it just did arrive on the web site!  Guess I'll have to
grab it and see about coming up with those changes now, unless of course
someone else beats me to it (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). :)

Chuck

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Charles K. Hines   <ckh "at" requesttech.com>   <hines "at" gderome.com>
Principal Scientist at ReQuest Technologies Inc   (http://www.ReQuestTech.com/)
Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis and Balintawak Escrima]

         "Go back to sleep, Chuck.  You're just havin' a nightmare
             -- of course, we ARE still in Hell." (Gary Larson)
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