Cyberduck Connection Fails/Timeout

Question

How would I go about changing either my SSH config or Cyberduck configuration to enable SFTP connections from my local machine to connect through a proxy server and then connect to my destination server? Right now, my connection fails/times out in Cyberduck. However, I can reach the server just fine via SFTP from a Terminal window and I figure that something might be wrong with my SSH config.

This is how my SSH config currently looks:

Host proxyserveraddress.test.com
ProxyCommand none
# PreferredAuthentications publickey

Host server1.test.com

Host server2.test.com

Host server3.test.com

######## DEFAULTS #########

Host *.test.com
User myusername
Port 8622
PreferredAuthentications publickey,password
ProxyCommand ssh proxyserveraddress.test.com exec nc %h %p 2>/dev/null

As a specific example based on this sample config -

How would I, for example, modify this config to have Cyberduck on my local machine connect first to proxyserveraddress.test.com and then to server1.test.com?

Answer 1

It seems that cyberduck doesn't use SSH internally but implements the SSH protocol by itself.

From their wiki page on sftp:

The following configuration options from ~/.ssh/config are supported for SFTP connections:

• IdentityFile for public key authentication.
• HostName aliases.
• User preference for login credentials.

Answer 2

I use a similar config, which works fine for me.

It might help to explicitly exclude the proxy server from the last Host block:

Host *.test.com !proxyserveradres.test.com
    ProxyCommand ...

Besides, you could try the -W option (this basically does the same as nc, but without the extra command, thus it's more efficient and there's one possible source for errors less)

ProxyCommand ssh proxyserveraddress.test.com -W %h:%p