Re: problem with port forwarding

From: Georg D. (georg_at_nospam)
Date: 12/03/03 

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:03:35 GMT

"Darren Tucker" <dtucker@dodgy.net.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bqj9fm$a7f$1@gate.dodgy.net.au...
> In article <HP2zb.71941$361.29597@news.chello.at>,
> Georg D. <georg@nospam> wrote:
> [port forwarding]
> >- the server sees "connection refused" (?), and closes the channel
> >
> >- if I try connection to the same local port on the server withing
> >the same ssh session with telnet - it works
>
> Try forwarding to "127.0.0.1:3306" rather than "localhost:3306".
>
> OpenSSH is IPv6-aware and it might be trying to connect via IPv6
> while your application is only listening on IPv4. Using a numeric
> IPv4 loopback address will (should?) make it connect via IPv4. You can
> also restart your sshd with "-4" to make is use IPv4 only.

that helped - thanks alot!
I wonder if it would help to add localhost as 127.0.0.1 in hosts and
on the dns server. Is this a good idea?

thanks,
Georg

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