Redirection issue

From: Omar the Tentmaker (omar_at_allwrong.com)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 01:37:32 +0000 (UTC)

Question:

I'm trying to get redirection working between a couple of Linux
boxes and having trouble. I've been beating my head against
google but either my problem is somewhat unique (unlikely) or
my search terms are wanting (likely).

Basically, I have redirection sort-of working; using rsa
keys and the command

#root@client> ssh -l user -i ./my_rsa -R 5555:client:23 host

I can get redirection working fine... from the host's "localhost"
address! However, using the machine's ip address on the network
(or its hostname) will get me a "Connection refused" message. 

---
Wrong Avenue:
I thought perhaps it was a firewall issue, but it's not:
 - I get the same result from both the outside world and on the
   host server itself (telnet localhost 5555 vs. telnet host
   5555 or telnet ip.add.re.ss 5555)
 - I attached a simple socket reader to port 5555 and can then
   make a tcp connection from both the outside world and from the
   host itself (to its actual network ip or hostname)
---
Versions:
Client has: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004 
            Linux client 2.4.26 #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004 
             i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Host has: sshd version OpenSSH_3.5p1 
          Linux host 2.4.20-24.9 #1 Mon Dec 1 11:35:51 EST 2003 
           i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
---
Anyone have a clue or two they could bestow upon me?
Hope I'm not missing anything obvious.
Cheers,
-Omar
-- 
"If you water incompetence, what grows out of it?"  
                                      --Rick Aristotle Munarriz

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