Remote SSH forwarding won't work

[djco]

I want to be able to login to a NATted box at work from home, so I wanted to do remote SSH forwarding, like this:

ssh -N -R 2222:localhost:22 example.com

But when I login to example.com and try to login to the work box, it won't work:

djc@enrai ~ $ ssh -vvv 127.0.0.1:2222
OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8e 23 Feb 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
ssh: 127.0.0.1:2222: Name or service not known

djc@enrai ~ $ netstat -a
tcp 0 0 enrai.xavamedia.nl:2222 *:* LISTEN

So why isn't this working?

[merlijn]

This should work just fine if you have port 2222 forwarded to this box after the NAT.

However what I think is going wrong now, port 2222 is listening on the eth0 interface (enrai.xavamedia.nl), so you can't address that by using 127.0.0.1, you can see if it works by connecting to the lan ip of this box.

Hope this helps,
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