Bug 2406

Summary: Forwarding local port to remote named sockets fails
Product: Portable OpenSSH Reporter: Till Riedel <riedel>
Component: sshAssignee: Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: djm
Priority: P5    
Version: 6.8p1   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 2360    
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bug fix from original mail (updated to recent snapshot) none

Description Till Riedel 2015-06-02 07:28:42 AEST 
Created attachment 2636 [details]
bug fix from original mail (updated to recent snapshot)

I cannot forward to a socket on the remote host ("No forward host name.").

Example:

  ssh -L 12345:/tmp/sock

from original bug report by Jared Yanovich that includes a patch:
http://marc.info/?t=140753044000002&r=1&w=2
Comment 1 Damien Miller 2015-10-06 06:58:05 AEDT 
AFAIK this patch was committed and released in openssh-6.9