VNC & ssh tunneling problem: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY error

Jan Grant Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk
Fri Sep 5 03:59:30 PDT 2003


On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Scott I. Remick wrote:

> Figured I'd start with my FreeBSD friends first before bugging the VNC
> community.
>
> I used to have VNC tunneling over ssh just fine, but then had to redo my
> system drive. I used FreeBSD 5.1 before and still do now, however it's not
> working. I'm using the same PuTTY system so the config is the same as from
> before when it worked. So something is different at the FreeBSD end.
>
> The PuTTY log shows:
>
> 2003-09-04 11:26:28	Opening forwarded connection to localhost:5901
> 2003-09-04 11:26:28	Forwarded connection refused by server
>
> And /var/log/messages shows:
>
> Sep  4 11:26:28 scott sshd[37213]: error: getsockopt TCP_NODELAY:
> Connection reset by peer
>
> Maybe I'm just dumb and missed something I configured before, but I can't
> figure out what. Can someone offer insight? Thanks

Loks like the VNC srever isn't listening at that location. Is it
running?

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