From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-11-08T04:03:38+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb + SSH


On Nov 7, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> ssh lets you set up port forwarding in both directions. It works fine,
> although of course you have to set up the ssh connection yourself  
> first.

yeah looks like i might eat my words - hadn't played with that in a  
while but this works

# the tunnel - ran from client
ssh -L 4242:localhost:4242 -R 4243:localhost:4243  
aragorn.globe.ucar.edu -N


# the server
require 'drb'

DRb.start_service "druby://localhost:4242", %w( a b c )
puts DRb.uri
DRb.thread.join


# the client
require 'drb'

DRb.start_service 'druby://localhost:4243'
remote_array = DRbObject.new_with_uri 'druby://localhost:4242'
remote_array.each{|element| p element}



i guess NAT is an issue, but this does seem to work - not sure how  
robustly - but it's promising ;-)


put this up for posterity here: http://drawohara.com/post/58529480/ruby-drb-over-an-ssh-tunnel


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