[SOLVED] Encrypted Socks Tunnel with SSH

Question

many people use command
$ ssh -ND 8080 user@host
to protect internet traffic by tunneling to a safe location (like home server).
This should be done from client side and after connection is established, one can use localhost:8080 as a proxy server in web browser.
The question is following: is it possible to reverse direction of tunnel initiation? That is, establishing tunnel from the server side (with autossh for example) and then, similarly to above example, using localhost:8080 on the client side as a proxy?
Or should I run something as polipo on a server and then use simple tunneling with -R switch?
Last edited by Rimas (2011-08-13 22:14:24)

Answer 1

Thank you, ewaller.
Actually I did tunneled proxy once by establishing first reverse tunnel, like
$ ssh -qNnT -R 3333:localhost:22 mydomain.com
and then on client side
$ ssh -p 3333 -D 8888 localhost
but I'm not sure about how -D switch actually works and if it possible to introduce it somehow into first command to make tunnel and proxy forwarding simultaneously.