ssh forwarding connection refused messages, not just emacs

Philip Heron phil at sanslogic.co.uk
Tue Nov 9 17:39:37 UTC 2010


On 09/11/10 17:35, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 11/09/2010 09:30 AM, Philip Heron wrote:
>
>> When connecting to the forwarded port I get this message:
>> channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed
>>
>
>
>    I see this on f13 - it seems to happen when I use tunneled socks5
> proxy via
>
>        ssh -D socksport ...
>
>    Some of the proxy'ed things (browser) fail and I see the above errors
> just as you do in the terminal where I started the ssh.
>
>    Killing and restarting browser gets things going again ... tho for
> reasons I cannot fathom when this happens some things work and some dont
> in same browser (I think sites with flash may be effected .. more/only).

It turned out to be an selinux problem in my case, I had to run this:

# setsebool -P sshd_forward_ports 1

Now all is working.

-Phil


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