Network routing mystery; ssh works, vncviewer doesnt

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Sounds like an iptables firewall blocking the VNC port.

-derek

Quoting John Abreau <jabr at blu.org>:

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