[Openstack] Using Nova client with SSH SOCKS proxy

Adrian Smith adrian at 17od.com
Fri May 16 19:05:55 UTC 2014


Thanks guys. I got it working using proxychains (tsocks isn't readily
available under brew on OSX).


On 16 May 2014 17:24, Andriy Yurchuk <ayurchuk at minuteware.net> wrote:
> 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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