How to use SSH to create SOCKS server on remote side?

Question

I can create a SOCKS proxy on the local side of an SSH connection using -D but is there a way to create a proxy on the remote side? If not, why not? -L and -R do port forwarding on the local and remote side respectively. I can't see why remote SOCKS proxying would not exist.

Answer 1

I don't know about such an option of ssh, but you can get creative and combine -R and -D in two ssh commands like:

ssh -D 4711 localhost&
ssh -R 4711:localhost:4711

Of course you can use any existing SOCKS proxy instead of the first line.