Go implementation of a reverse SSH tunnel

Since the web is plenty of examples related to SSH forward tunnels (the famous SSH -L command) but lacks of information about its reversed counterpart (SSH -R), I decided to write down a few lines developed while working on a Go implementation of the SSH command:

/*
Go-Language implementation of an SSH Reverse Tunnel, the equivalent of below SSH command:
   ssh -R 8080:127.0.0.1:8080 operatore@146.148.22.123
which opens a tunnel between the two endpoints and permit to exchange information on this direction:
   server:8080 -----> client:8080
   once authenticated a process on the SSH server can interact with the service answering to port 8080 of the client
   without any NAT rule via firewall
Copyright 2017, Davide Dal Farra
MIT License, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
*/

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
    "net"

    "golang.org/x/crypto/ssh"
)

type Endpoint struct {
    Host string
    Port int
}

func (endpoint *Endpoint) String() string {
    return fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", endpoint.Host, endpoint.Port)
}

// From https://sosedoff.com/2015/05/25/ssh-port-forwarding-with-go.html
// Handle local client connections and tunnel data to the remote server
// Will use io.Copy - http://golang.org/pkg/io/#Copy
func handleClient(client net.Conn, remote net.Conn) {
    defer client.Close()
    chDone := make(chan bool)

    // Start remote -> local data transfer
    go func() {
        _, err := io.Copy(client, remote)
        if err != nil {
            log.Println(fmt.Sprintf("error while copy remote->local: %s", err))
        }
        chDone <- true
    }()

    // Start local -> remote data transfer
    go func() {
        _, err := io.Copy(remote, client)
        if err != nil {
            log.Println(fmt.Sprintf("error while copy local->remote: %s", err))
        }
        chDone <- true
    }()

    <-chDone
}

func publicKeyFile(file string) ssh.AuthMethod {
    buffer, err := ioutil.ReadFile(file)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(fmt.Sprintf("Cannot read SSH public key file %s", file))
        return nil
    }

    key, err := ssh.ParsePrivateKey(buffer)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(fmt.Sprintf("Cannot parse SSH public key file %s", file))
        return nil
    }
    return ssh.PublicKeys(key)
}

// local service to be forwarded
var localEndpoint = Endpoint{
    Host: "localhost",
    Port: 8080,
}

// remote SSH server
var serverEndpoint = Endpoint{
    Host: "146.148.22.123",
    Port: 22,
}

// remote forwarding port (on remote SSH server network)
var remoteEndpoint = Endpoint{
    Host: "localhost",
    Port: 8080,
}

func main() {

    // refer to https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/crypto/ssh for other authentication types
    sshConfig := &ssh.ClientConfig{
        // SSH connection username
        User: "operatore",
        Auth: []ssh.AuthMethod{
            // put here your private key path
            publicKeyFile("/home/operatore/.ssh/id_rsa"),
        },
        HostKeyCallback: ssh.InsecureIgnoreHostKey(),
    }

    // Connect to SSH remote server using serverEndpoint
    serverConn, err := ssh.Dial("tcp", serverEndpoint.String(), sshConfig)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(fmt.Printf("Dial INTO remote server error: %s", err))
    }

    // Listen on remote server port
    listener, err := serverConn.Listen("tcp", remoteEndpoint.String())
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalln(fmt.Printf("Listen open port ON remote server error: %s", err))
    }
    defer listener.Close()

    // handle incoming connections on reverse forwarded tunnel
    for {
        // Open a (local) connection to localEndpoint whose content will be forwarded so serverEndpoint
        local, err := net.Dial("tcp", localEndpoint.String())
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatalln(fmt.Printf("Dial INTO local service error: %s", err))
        }        
        
        client, err := listener.Accept()
        if err != nil {
            log.Fatalln(err)
        }

        handleClient(client, local)
    }

}