Bug 53308

Summary:	openssh port forwarding fails.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	tgl
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Description David Woodhouse 2001-09-06 13:04:08 UTC

Using openssh to port forward for IRC fails when the server is openssh-2.5
or openssh-2.9.

On a Red Hat 7.1 or 7.2-beta box, try:
 ssh -L 6667:irc.openprojects.net:6667 (some7.1or7.2box)

 and in another terminal type: 
 irc somenick irc.openprojects.net (any server seems to show the same
behaviour)

 tcpdump and observe the traffic on both the loopback interface and the
link to the outside world. You'll see that the IRC client is sending
commands which aren't being forwarded by sshd. ircii and xchat suffer, but
strangely using telnet or nc to connect makes it work. 

When the server is a 7.0 box with openssh-2.3.0p1-4, it works fine.

Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2001-09-06 13:10:56 UTC

Argh. I need more coffee. Obviously the irc command has to be:
 irc somenick localhost

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2001-11-01 13:13:42 UTC

This problem still exists in the latest openssh erratum. (2.9p2-9)

Comment 3 David Woodhouse 2001-11-06 22:22:44 UTC

I've verified that a clean build of the OpenSSH 3.0p1 RPM does not have this
problem. Either it's been fixed in the 3.0 release, or it was a Red Hat patch
which introduced the bug.

Comment 4 David Woodhouse 2001-11-07 20:47:43 UTC

A clean build of the OpenSSH 2.9p2 RPM also has this bug - so it wasn't
introduced by one of the Red Hat patches, it was present in the original source.
This means that upgrading to 3.0p1 ought to fix it. 

What are the chances of an erratum release, or do we have to find a remote root
before that can happen?

Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2001-11-13 23:56:22 UTC

Verified.  This problem is incredibly annoying.  Got 3.0.* RPM's
somewhere David?

Comment 6 David Woodhouse 2001-11-14 00:42:47 UTC

ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/rpm/

Comment 7 David Woodhouse 2001-12-05 12:52:58 UTC

Is this expected to be fixed by the openssh-2.9p2-11 erratum?

Comment 8 Tom Lane 2001-12-17 17:08:37 UTC

This might be the same problem that's giving me fits with fetching email:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=100852334213359&w=2

Now that I've been told by the upstream developers that there was a relevant
bug fix in openssh 2.9.9, I would really like to see us issue something newer
than 2.9.

Comment 9 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-03-07 20:49:05 UTC

3.1 is going out as an errata soonish, but the fixes may show up in Raw Hide
before that.