Bug#516441: ssh: port forwarding broken?

[clayton <ckoeni@gmail.com>]

Package: ssh
Version: 1:5.1p1-5
Severity: normal


$ ssh -fNg -L 6603:127.0.0.1:3306 desktop1
ckoen@desktop1's password: 
bind: Address already in use
channel_setup_fwd_listener: cannot listen to port: 6603
Could not request local forwarding.

This happens if I use any arbitrary client port instead of 6603. It seems 
rather unlikely that every port on my machine is already taken. It also 
fails from a root terminal, and if I remove the -g option.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  openssh-client                1:5.1p1-5  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  openssh-server                1:5.1p1-5  secure shell server, an rshd repla

ssh recommends no packages.

ssh suggests no packages.

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