From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 06:25:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C2416A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 06:25:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8803543D1D for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 06:25:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DoEq3-0001hM-UE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:17:23 +0200 Received: from anthonychavez.org ([166.70.126.66]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:17:23 +0200 Received: from acc by anthonychavez.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:17:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Anthony Chavez Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:24:45 -0600 Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20050630215633.E90475@wolf.pjkh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: anthonychavez.org X-PGP-Key: http://anthonychavez.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dEHRiluOjp2AtJLtfOD9qGd2UaA= Sender: news Subject: Re: VNC multiplexer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:25:52 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:59:14 -0700 (PDT) Philip Hallstrom wrote: >>> On 6/26/05, Anthony Chavez wrote: >>>> I've got a client that would like to be able to connect to VNC servers >>>> behind a FreeBSD gateway. Said servers are assigned dynamic IPs via >>>> DHCP, so port mapping (via pf) is not an option (AFAIK). However, we >>>> intend to make use of dynamic DNS, so they will at least have hostnames. > > I missed the first part of this, but would proxying the VNC > connections through an intermediate SSH server help at all? > > http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/vnc_through_an_ssh_proxy > > You could setup individual SSH tunnels for each machine in question. > The tunnel would stay the same regardless of the IP... and the VNC > viewer would connect to localhost so you'd never really need the > server IP. This *might* work. I think that my client wants to be as non-intrusive on the users' workstations as possible, but we could always script up something to mass-deploy openssh and tightvnc "invisibly" to the users. Thanks! - -- Anthony Chavez http://anthonychavez.org/ mailto:acc@anthonychavez.org jabber:acc@jabber.anthonychavez.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iQEVAwUBQsThsPAIdTFWAbdTAQoZVAgAjIbnkbKMiCZ4/BfIPFxx4bvLGnDUOjOY JuhMJf/maDB7HDnAipZ8I8cd1BpE1JW+P8+EM2+wje6bA+SdcfDzy6WFJTIkc0er SqVjsAj82JwBfOXE7tKbNZaw+R7JYazPVc5Kz4eliTIJxw/PnkJSjz3Io8F+Q5Vv rMbkX04y7mu4O/T1NRSG7jyvmW9E+3wlrtSdhWAD+7HeQwsaLBiZDcw6Ln5t3Jp+ PTFzYFlyGHKQ7e6qiVWyxyIeHc0JWb2sHFZk/quDqfUe8bOeyf1Uyxpy6T1CTWxv R6JpjHCM8wKbKX6KPSKyxPf7UzNVxg37a3A/P2waCaC2+qs00McPFw== =+2Xo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----