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A few tweaks to SSH proxy docs.

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Jacob Nevins 2022-01-12 01:16:53 +00:00
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@ -1962,10 +1962,17 @@ through to an external host. Selecting \I{Telnet proxy}\q{Telnet}
allows you to tell PuTTY to use this type of proxy.
\b Selecting \q{SSH} causes PuTTY to make a secondary SSH connection
to the proxy host, and then open a port-forwarding channel to the
final destination host. The \q{Proxy hostname} field will be
interpreted as the name of a PuTTY saved session if one exists, or a
hostname if not.
to the proxy host (sometimes called a \q{\i{jump host}} in this
context), and then open a port-forwarding channel to the
final destination host.
\lcont{
The \q{Proxy hostname} field will be interpreted as the name of a
PuTTY saved session if one exists, or a hostname if not. This
allows multi-hop jump paths, if the referenced saved session is
itself configured to use an SSH proxy; and it allows combining SSH
and non-SSH proxying.
}
\b Selecting \I{Local proxy}\q{Local} allows you to specify an arbitrary
command on the local machine to act as a proxy. When the session is
@ -2035,9 +2042,9 @@ set it to \q{Yes}, PuTTY will always pass host names straight to the
proxy without trying to look them up first.
If you set this option to \q{Auto} (the default), PuTTY will do
something it considers appropriate for each type of proxy. Telnet,
HTTP, and SOCKS5 proxies will have host names passed straight to
them; SOCKS4 proxies will not.
something it considers appropriate for each type of proxy. Most
types of proxy (HTTP, SOCK5, SSH, Telnet, and local) will have host
names passed straight to them; SOCKS4 proxies will not.
Note that if you are doing DNS at the proxy, you should make sure
that your proxy exclusion settings (see \k{config-proxy-exclude}) do