[GRLUG] X forwading question

[L. V. Lammert]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Michael Mol wrote:

> So, you have three machines, A, B and C. You're on A, you ssh to B to
> run Firefox on C? It's not really clear.
>
Yep! We us a number of reverse ssh tunnels from remote machines behind
firewalls, ... makes maintenance and monitoring simple.

> My question would be, how are you verifying that Firefox's HTTP
> requests are coming out of the machine the X server is running on? (I
> take it that's the behavior you're seeing.)
>
Two ways:

1) Firefox cannot access IPs local to the X client machine, .. and
2) Firefox continues to run after the ssh session is ended.

	Lee