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SSH dynamic port forwarding, "Connection refused"

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Problem

I am trying to do dynamic portforwarding using openssh through a remote computer following this command: This should set up a socks server on my comp as I assume. I am able to use this for normal browsing but can't connect to IRC or remote ssh (through proxychains). I get this error: A high verbosi…

Error Output

ssh -D 6789 rohan@<remote_ip> -p <remote_port>

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Fix for: SSH dynamic port forwarding, "Connection refused"

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It's as simple as that: The target computer (in this case ) refused the connection. (I must say that tunnelling DNS over SOCKS this way is very unusual, although not related to your problem.) Are you able to connect from the server to (for example) …

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