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Bug 444849 - vino only listens on IPv6 interfaces
vino only listens on IPv6 interfaces
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vino (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: David Zeuthen
Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 463782 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-05-01 00:02 EDT by Charles R. Anderson
Modified: 2013-03-05 22:55 EST (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 11:09:42 EDT
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Description Charles R. Anderson 2008-05-01 00:02:07 EDT 
Description of problem:

I've always connected to vino-server over SSH like this:

ssh -L 5901:localhost:5900 remotehost

Then start vncviewer localhost:1 on the local system.

This doesn't work with F9's vino-server.  Instead, the SSH session gives an
error message:

channel 3: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

Even trying to telnet to localhost port 5900 fails:

>telnet localhost 5900
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

But this works:

>telnet localhost6 5900
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
Trying ::1...
Connected to localhost6.
Escape character is '^]'.
RFB 003.007
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.

netstat shows that vino-server is listening on ::1:5900

>netstat -nlp|grep 5900
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        0      0 ::1:5900                    :::*                       
LISTEN      3285/vino-server

As a workaround I've been able to forward the IPv6 port over SSH like this:

ssh -L '5901:[::1]:5900' remotehost

vino-server should be listening on a socket that allows connections to 127.0.0.1
and ::1 by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vino-2.22.1-1.fc9.i386
Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:27:27 EDT 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2008-08-07 10:31:53 EDT 
The problem goes beyond localhost; on two different F9 machines I've tried, vino-server only listens on remote IPv6 interfaces as well, and not remote IPv4 interfaces
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2008-08-07 10:55:41 EDT 
Hm... server/libvncserver/sockets.c intentionally only opens an IPv6 socket if you built with IPv6 support. It must be expecting that libc will do the v6-mapped-v4-address thing and support IPv4 connections on the same socket? Did libc's behavior here change recently? Or did we used to build vino with --disable-ipv6? (That fixes this bug, though of course it breaks IPv6 usage completely.)
Comment 4 Bas Mevissen 2008-12-29 09:40:30 EST 
New bug #463782 was submitted for F10. So this is an old problem (already existing in F8) which is still relevant...
Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 20:32:50 EDT 
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Comment 6 Charles R. Anderson 2009-06-18 23:53:20 EDT 
Verified that this works in Fedora 11.
Comment 7 Charles R. Anderson 2009-06-18 23:53:40 EDT 
*** Bug 463782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 11:09:42 EDT 
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