On 4/3/04 6:56 AM, "civitan at jeffporten.com" <civitan at jeffporten.com> wrote: > > sudo ssh -L 25:smtp.myisp.net:25 me at mydomain.dyndns.org > > which works rather nicely. But then, for whatever reason, these > tunnels just, er, collapse -- no communication. Which means I have to > kill the previous ssh process and reestablish the tunnel. This occurs > 5 times a day. Could that have something to do with dyndns.org? (The reason your tunnels crumble...) Kirk My latest book: How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Panther http://www.mcelhearn.com/htde.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kirk at mcelhearn.com | http://www.mcelhearn.com . . . . . . . . Kirk McElhearn | Chemin de la Lauze | 05600 Guillestre | France . .