Re: How to apt-get over ssh tunnel through a firewall?
You can use ssh but ...
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:02:22PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a number of debian machines that live behind a firewall.
>
> Debian Machine A is granted internet access and can browse
> the internet. However machines B-D were not granted internet access and live on the general internal network,
> and were originally installed with Debian by utilizing a private network with machine A
> 192.168.4.x, and getting internet access via NAT through A.
>
> Now machines B-D no longer live on the private network but can ssh into machine A.
>
> Now I know how to browse the internet on B-D
> by creating a ssh tunnel to A and utilizing the Iceweasel Browser settings to use a
> local Socks proxy.
Yes.
> Can I do something similar with apt-get so that I can apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
> over ssh without
> physically moving the machines B-D to the private network 192.168.4.x with machine A?
Yes. But doing without ssh may be simpler and saves BW.
Run squid on A and let others access it. You need to set http_proxy
environment variable or use apt.conf setting for all A,B,C. Then you
save bandwidth.
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