Network routing mystery; ssh works, vncviewer doesnt

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

I just tried dropping iptables on the remote machine and then vnc-ing 
into it. I get the same error.

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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