Another lesser known tunneling trick is that SSH will happily act as a SOCKS5 Proxy. I've been using this trick for going on 20 years now.
Just do:
ssh -D9090 user@remote
Then, in Firefox, set it to use a SOCK5 proxy of localhost:9090 and "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5".
Now, when you use Firefox it is as if you are using Firefox on the machine you are SSH'd into(including DNS resolution!). This is really handy for things like accessing otherwise unreachable resources or other internal resources externally. I use it for accessing iDRAC/IPMI/ESXi (you can also tell Java to use the proxy so VMRC works as well). It is also handy to be able to put all your web traffic as originating from a remote VPS with no advanced setup required.
Just do: ssh -D9090 user@remote
Then, in Firefox, set it to use a SOCK5 proxy of localhost:9090 and "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5".
Now, when you use Firefox it is as if you are using Firefox on the machine you are SSH'd into(including DNS resolution!). This is really handy for things like accessing otherwise unreachable resources or other internal resources externally. I use it for accessing iDRAC/IPMI/ESXi (you can also tell Java to use the proxy so VMRC works as well). It is also handy to be able to put all your web traffic as originating from a remote VPS with no advanced setup required.