Network routing mystery; ssh works, vncviewer doesnt

[nmeyers at javalinux.net (nmeyers at javalinux.net)]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:19:33AM -0500, John Abreau 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 
> be working. What else could cause vnc to fail with that error?

A firewall blocking VNC, maybe? As an alternate route, you might try
tunnelling VNC over one of your ssh connections.

Nathan

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> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Aug  4 2005 06:43:41
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