solaris and Remote Port Forwarding

Austin Gonyou austin at coremetrics.com
Tue Nov 20 12:15:00 EST 2001


As far as I understand it, that behaviour is correct.

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 19:04, David F. Newman wrote:
> Hello,
> I just upgraded from 2.9p2 to 3.0.1p1 and good news.  I don't have to
> patch channels.c to get Remote Port Forwarding to work.  That is
> fantastic.
> 
> It appears, however, that -g still doesn't work.  I checked the archives
> and it doesn't look like anyone has mentioned it yet.
> 
> What does work is if I ssh to a machine I can telnet to localhost on
> the forwarded port, but connecting to the remote host on the forwarded
> port from another host doesn't work.
> 
> netstat -a reveils:
> localhost.4000             *.*                0      0     0      0
> LISTEN
> 
> so it is still just binding to localhost instead of INADDR_ANY.
> 
> p.s. This first test was on Solaris 2.6 sparc, and I am about to rebuild
>      on Solaris 7 and 8, but I don't expect different results.
> 
> --
> David F. Newman
> UNIX Administrator
> dnewman at maraudingpirates.org
> 
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA 
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
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