no, it's way too hacky, don't want to copy several GBs of files through the intermediary my colleagues used approach with manually launching nc on hosts X and

no, it's way too hacky, don't want to copy several GBs of files through the intermediary my colleagues used approach with manually launching nc on hosts X and Y to avoid using the intermediate host. But that's also hacky ( though probably faster than ssh due to lack of encryption )