Network routing mystery; ssh works, vncviewer doesnt

[Andrew Medico]

On 11/28/05, John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with VNC that I've been unable to figure out. I've
> got a number of remote machines connecting to my LAN over OpenVPN. I can
> ping them and ssh to them successfully, but when I try to connect with
> vncviewer, I get an error
>
>   main:        unable to connect to host: No route to host (113)
>
> The routes look fine, and if they really were broken then ssh wouldn't

What happens when you try "telnet <host> 5900" (for display numbers
other than 0, add the display number to 5900)? If that gives you "no
route to host" too, you've got a network problem and not an
application problem.

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Andrew Medico <a.medico at gmail.com>