Re: That darned firewall..

[Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>]

This is how I get to remote systems' NNTP ports:

ssh -g -q -f -x -L7878:NewsServer:119 OtherHost sleep 100000000

See man page for details on switches.

This means: ssh will create port 7878 on the local machine.  When
something connects to that, ssh will tunnel to OtherHost, whose
responding sshd will open NewsServer's port 119.  The sleep(1) just
keeps the tunnel alive forever.

Now set your access method to localhost port 7878 and you're done.

You just have to remember to initialize the tunnel when your own
machine boots.

Beware of -g if you don't want your tunnel accessible to the universe.