Problems with port forwarding on Suse Linux 9.0

[Darren Tucker]

Bob Fischer wrote:
[snip]
> On the client system, I run (where "suse-server" is the IP address of my
> SuSE server system to which I'm trying to connect)
> 
> client> /usr/bin/ssh -f -L 5599:localhost:25 suse-server sleep 100
> client> telnet localhost 5599
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
> Connection closed by foreign host.
[snip]
> suse-server> telnet localhost 25
> Trying ::1...
> telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused

Try setting the forward to "-L 5599:127.0.0.1:25".  I suspect sshd is
trying to connect to the IPv6 address of "localhost", which is refused,
and sshd doesn't try the IPv4 address.

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