Re: Fw: tunnel between two debian hosts not working not working

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Clayton wrote:
> "debug1: Entering interactive session."
> 
> then an attempt to browse to a web site which fails with
> 
> "channel 1: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed"
> 
> I repeat, the same ssh client works with another server. Google is not
> helpful so far, and I have yet to stumble on the magical recipe to get
> this working server-side.
> 
> I suspect I am bumping into some kind of security default, but what? Any
> clues to what may be going wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Clayton

I believe that you have ssh port forwarding / tunneling disabled in your
sshd_config. Check for it, especially AllowTcpForwarding.

By the way, you shouldn't advertise on a public list that you are doing
such thing as bypassing the great firewall of China...

Thomas