I am trying to browse a wiki that runs on a server inside one domain from another domain. The wiki is accessible only on the LAN, but I need to browse it from another LAN to which I connect with an SSH tunnel ...

Here is my setup and the steps I did so far:

~.ssh/confing on wikihost:

Host gateway
  User kisteuser
  Port 443
  Hostname gateway.companydomain.com
  ProxyCommand /home/myuser/bin/ssh-https-tunnel %h %p
  # ssh-https-tunnel:
  # http://ttcplinux.sourceforge.net/tools/stunnel
  Protocol 2
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key_dsa
  LocalForward 11069 localhost:11069

Host server1
  User kisteuser
  Hostname localhost
  Port 11069
  LocalForward 8022 server1:22
  LocalForward 17001 server1:7100
  LocalForward 8080 www-proxy:3128
  RemoteForward 11069 localhost:22

from wikihost

myuser@wikihost: ssh -XC -t gateway.companydomain.com ssh -L11069:localhost:22 server1

on another terminal:

ssh gateway.companydomain.com

Now, on my companydomain I would like to start firefox and browse the wiki on wikihost. I did:

[email protected] ~ $ ssh gateway
Have a lot of fun...
kisteuser@gateway ~ $ ssh -D 8383 localhost
user@localhost's password: 
user@wikiserver:~> 

My .ssh/config on that side looks like that:

host server1
    localforward 11069 localhost:11069

host localhost
    user myuser
    port 11069

host wikiserver
    forwardagent yes
    user myuser
    port 11069
    hostname localhost 

Now, I started firefox on the server called gateway, and edited the proxy settings to use SOCKSv5, specifying that the proxy should be gateway and use the port 8383...

kisteuser@gateway ~ $ LANG=C firefox -P --no-remote

And, now I get the following error popping in the Terminal of wikiserver:

myuser@wikiserver:~> channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

Confused? Me too ...

Please help me understand how to properly build the tunnels and browse the wiki over SOCKS protocol.

update:

I managed to browse the wiki on wikiserver with the following changes:

host wikiserver
    forwardagent yes
    user myuser
    port 11069
    hostname localhost 
    localforward 8339 localhost:8443

Now when I ssh gateway I launch Firefox and go to localhost:8339 and I hit the start page of the wiki, which is served on Port 8443.

Now I ask myself is SOCKS really needed? Can someone elaborate on that ?