[Openstack] Using Nova client with SSH SOCKS proxy

Andriy Yurchuk ayurchuk at minuteware.net
Fri May 16 16:24:48 UTC 2014


Hi!

SOCKS proxy is not an HTTP proxy so setting HTTP_PROXY environment variable won't work. Rather try something like tsocks: http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/index.php

On May 16, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Adrian Smith <adrian at 17od.com> wrote:

> Yes,
> 
> $ grep localhost /etc/hosts
> # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
> 127.0.0.1    localhost
> ::1             localhost
> fe80::1%lo0    localhost
> 
> 
> 
> On 16 May 2014 17:05, Clark, Robert Graham <robert.clark at hp.com> wrote:
>> Is localhost listed in your /etc/hosts ?
>> 
>> Maybe try with HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:13392 - just in case.
>> 
>> On 16/05/2014 11:41, "Adrian Smith" <adrian at 17od.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> To access my controller I need to go through a intermediary box.
>>> 
>>> I've created a local SOCKS proxy by ssh'ing to this intermediary with
>>> the parameters -D 13392.
>>> 
>>> I then set the environment variable,
>>> export HTTP_PROXY=http://localhost:13392
>>> 
>>> But using "nova list" just gives an error,
>>> $ nova list
>>> ERROR: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=13392): Max retries
>>> exceeded with url: http://x.x.x.x:5000/v2.0/tokens (Caused by <class
>>> 'httplib.BadStatusLine'>: '')
>>> 
>>> Should this work? Am I doing something wrong?
>>> 
>>> Adrian
>>> 
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