ssh tunneling and "channel 2: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed"

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 11:43:46 UTC 2007


On 23/01/07, Rick Sewill <rsewill at cableone.net> wrote:
>
> I scanned the Internet.  Indications were administratively prohibited
> either meant "AllowTCPForwarding" was no in the sshd_config file on
> machine B or the target machine (machine C) was not being found.
>
> It would surprise me if one cannot do ssh -N -L 8080:C:22 B
> but perhaps the name, C, is not being resolved to an IP address.
>
> Could you try the actual IP address for machine C in the command?
>

Yes - I tried that to no avail I'm afraid.

> Otherwise, I fear the problem is AllowTCPForwarding on machine B.
>

It looks that way.

Jonathan




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