Re^5: How do you use Net::OpenSSH to query mysql database via ssh tunnel

Why do you connect your local MySQL client to 127.0.0.1:3306?

What do you think the $socket value is in the return value of ->open_tunnel?

You will need to find the local port number of $socket and pass that as a number to your local MySQL client library.

Maybe it will help you to draw a picture like the following, but on paper, and to add the IP addresses and port numbers:


|---- Nysus Desktop ---|                      |---- remote MySQL serve
+r ---|
| 192.168.1.1          |                      |    10.0.1.17:3306     
+     |
| 127.0.0.1:xxx ]==========( ssh tunnel ) =======[ 127.0.0.1:3306     
+     |
|----------------------|                      |-----------------------
+-----|
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Update: I don't think you can do what you want using Net::OpenSSH in the way you do, because the documentation says:

Unlike when ssh -L options is used to create tunnels, no TCP port is opened on the local machine at any time so this is a perfectly secure operation.

The MySQL client library will want to talk to a local IP socket, so you need the equivalent of -L instead.

Maybe some other function of Net::OpenSSH provides that functionality.

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Re^6: How do you use Net::OpenSSH to query mysql database via ssh tunnel by haukex (Archbishop) on May 09, 2017 at 14:04 UTC
The way I understand it, what appears to be going on is this: Net::OpenSSH is setting up a new `ssh` process on the local machine and giving it the `-W` option (ssh). This causes the ssh process on the local machine to establish a tunnel to the remote side, where it connects to the given remote address+port. On the local end, it provides that TCP connection over the ssh process's STDIN and STDOUT. Net::OpenSSH then creates a new socketpair, attaches the STDIN and STDOUT streams of the slave SSH process to one end and returns the other as `$socket` (I'm partially quoting from the option `stdinout_socket`).	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^6: How do you use Net::OpenSSH to query mysql database via ssh tunnel
by haukex (Archbishop) on May 09, 2017 at 14:04 UTC

The way I understand it, what appears to be going on is this: Net::OpenSSH is setting up a new ssh process on the local machine and giving it the -W option (ssh). This causes the ssh process on the local machine to establish a tunnel to the remote side, where it connects to the given remote address+port. On the local end, it provides that TCP connection over the ssh process's STDIN and STDOUT. Net::OpenSSH then creates a new socketpair, attaches the STDIN and STDOUT streams of the slave SSH process to one end and returns the other as $socket (I'm partially quoting from the option stdinout_socket).

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