Are you trying to make the tunnel as root? Kosala 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? > > Thanks, > Clayton > -- Kosala -------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: Views expressed in this mail are my personal views and they would not reflect views of the employer. -------------------------------------------- blog.kosala.net www.linux.lk/~kosala/ www.kosala.net
