[NCLUG] ssh through a proxy

[Dan Fink]

I might be missing something obvious here...I hope someone can help.


My ISP is Starband since there are no phone lines up here in the 
mountians, and starband requires a Windows machine for the gateway.  
Gateway computer runs WinME with KSCproxy, with port 22 open and 
destination set to domain name of server I need to ssh to (xyz.com). 
Local NIC on gateway machine is 192.168.0.1. Machine I need to ssh from 
is Linux.

I thought that:
ssh -L 22:192.168.0.1:22 danbob at xyz.com <mailto:danbob at xyz.com>
would do the trick, but bash responds "Temporary failure in name resolution"

Am I indeed missing somthing obvious? I'm a rank amateur in dealing with 
networks.

Of course PuTTy does not work either when I boot the Linux machine in 
Windows.....I figured this would be the case behind the proxy.

AND, can tunneling with ssh be done from the Linux box without being 
root, since port 22 is privileged?

Thanks in advance

Dan