SSH support setting up reverse SOCKS proxies, e.g. using -R command-line option to OpenSSH. These are the same as SOCKS proxies, except that the port listening for connections is on the remote side of the proxy, and traffic is forwarded from the remote machine to the client machine (which started the tunnel), and from there to any destination of interest (to programs running on the remote side of the proxy).
Setting this up in an ad-hoc fashion is discussed in this SU question; my question is: How can I make such a reverse SOCKS proxy persistent over multiple user login sessions and machine power cycles?
Notes:
- I would hope that, these days, Windows itself may facilitate this without having to look for a custom application for this purpose.
- This is the Windows counterpart of How to get a persistent reverse SSH tunnel using autossh? , which regards persistent tunneling on Linux
- This is the reverse-proxy counterpart of Automatic SSH tunneling from Windows , which regarded persistent non-proxy non-reverse tunnels. The answers there seem a bit long in the tooth and (IIANM) don't cover reverse SOCKS proxies.
