[Box Backup] bbstored/bbackupd communication ports

[Robert Shaw]

Just as a further comment, I changed all my other 127.0.0.1 port 
forwards (essentially port forwarding the ports on the current logged 
in host (my server)) to the actual IP of the server, and they all still 
work. I must have been lucky that it was working to the localhost IP. 
Still strange, but now it all works fine.

Now my laptop will backup during the day (to home) when I'm at work 
too. Excellent!

Thanks again.
-Robert

On Jan 19, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Robert Shaw wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Nevermind! I fixed it. I'm not exactly sure why this works, but the 
> following works:
>
> laptop# ssh workserver -L 8022:homerouter:22
> laptop# ssh localhost -p 8022 -L 2201:homeserver:2201
>
> For some reason the port forward going through port 8022 to homeserver 
> does not like forwarding from 127.0.0.1, but will forward properly 
> from the actual IP address instead. I was essentially do this before:
>
> laptop# ssh workserver -L 8022:homerouter:22
> laptop# ssh localhost -p 8022 -L 2201:127.0.0.1:2201
>
> but when I plug in the actual IP:
>
> laptop# ssh workserver -L 8022:homerouter:22
> laptop# ssh localhost -p 8022 -L 2201:192.168.123.456:2201
>
> It works just fine. I wonder why my other port forwards work. I would 
> have suspected they were broken as well. Maybe it's just the way 
> boxbackup works that is causing it to not allow the port forwarded 
> connection.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the help on this.
>
> -Robert