You don’t have to look for malice… that’s just how multicast works. It doesn’t even route well on a local network, much less doing crazy stuff like ssh tunnels. Smile
Well iTunes 4.0 it did work, then 4.01 Apple disabled it deliberately as the musci industry was getting pissed. So far I understood it.
But yeah the problem may really be the client. You cant tell the iTunes client to connect to an IP, thats the problem it seems.
But actually devices like the roku’s or any other DAAP/RSP player could simply accept an IP option then it should work remote without ssh.
So ssh-tunnel is the only way to trick it so far?