From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 15:02:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADA116A4CE for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (xfiles.yadt.co.uk [81.187.204.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE7543FE3 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:02:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 24506 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2003 23:01:59 -0000 Received: from gattaca.yadt.co.uk (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (qmailr@81.187.204.179) by xfiles.yadt.co.uk with SMTP; 8 Nov 2003 23:01:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 6758 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Nov 2003 23:01:58 -0000 Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:01:58 +0000 From: David Taylor To: Aditya Message-ID: <20031108230158.GA6493@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Aditya , current@freebsd.org References: <20031106214343.GA91634@mighty.grot.org> <20031106232921.GB9791@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031106233148.GA92638@mighty.grot.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031106233148.GA92638@mighty.grot.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh port forwarding changed under 5-CURRENT vs. STABLE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:02:05 -0000 On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Aditya wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:29:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:43:43PM -0800, Aditya wrote: > > > > > debug1: Connections to local port 8000 forwarded to remote address > > > www.freebsd.org:80 > > > debug1: Local forwarding listening on 127.0.0.1 port 8000. > > > bind: Can't assign requested address > > > channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 8000 > > > Could not request local forwarding. > > > > > > and I can't see any reason why the binding would fail: > > > > Is something else (e.g. another ssh session) already bound to that port? > > nope -- and I've tried all sorts of ports other than 8000 too: (I'm assuming you do have a lo0 device with 127.0.0.1) Have you tried binding it to the address on the interface which your host will send packets to the remote host over? -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk "The future just ain't what it used to be"