ssh tunnel refusing connections with “channel 2: open failed”
Problem solved: $ ssh -L 7000:127.0.0.1:7000 user@host -N -v -v …apparently, ‘localhost‘ was not liked by the remote host. Yet, remote /etc/hosts contains: ::1 localhost localhost. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost. while the local network interface is lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33184 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 Sigh. so … Read more