On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:42:31 +0300 Kosala Atapattu <kosala.atapattu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Clayton<ckoeni@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi openssh, > > > > I live in China and have a server in the US. I have been using an > > SSH tunnel for web browsing to go around the censorship. > > > > I am able to successfully proxy through an ssh tunnel to a shell > > account on a US-based hosting service where I have some websites. > > However, my own server does not work. (Even odder, I swear it > > worked the first day I tried it, then it stopped working without > > any configuration change on either end. I challenged the provider > > of my data center, and they said "we are not blocking you".) > > > > In the attached text file is a log of my initial connection, which > > ends with > > > > "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, and even > > this failing server worked the first day I tried it. > > > > Any clues to what may be going wrong? > > Are you trying to make the tunnel as root? Yes, root on both ends. I begin to wonder if there is something I need to turn on in the firewall on the server end. (I have tried with firewall both on and off....) Thanks, Clayton
