Hi, for the record, I was told to try -4 on the command line. Indeed, that quiets the "Address already in use" message. Maybe this is useful to someone else. best, Robert Dodier On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Robert Dodier <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use ssh for port forwarding. > So far ssh -L has worked just fine for that purpose. > Now I want to bind the port to all interfaces, > so I tried ssh -g -L. The SSH session seems to launch > successfully, and the port is forwarded as expected, > and it is bound to all interfaces. However, > I get an error message as the remote session is > launched: "bind: Address already in use". > > I also tried ssh -b but ssh still complains "Address already in use". > > I have verified that that there actually isn't any > other process using the port I want. > I can't find any additional info in /var/log/messages > or elsewhere in /var/log/. > > Since the port forwarding seems to work, I'm not > too worried about it, but I'd like to understand what's > going on. Any ideas? > > ssh on the client reports its version as > "OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003" > and sshd on the server is openssh-server-4.5p1-6.fc7 > as reported by rpm. > > Thanks for your help, > > Robert Dodier
