Re: Oracle 9i - Putty - tnsping works

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 23:51:27 GMT
Message-ID: <3QQ7g.74194$H71.24265@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

"Sven Roeseler" <sroeseler_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1147071409.415560_at_elch.in-berlin.de...
> Bob Jones <email_at_me.not> wrote:
>>> Putty supports port forwarding.
>>
>> Why are you telling me this? I know it does. What does that have to do
>> with
>> the loopback address?
>
> The loopback interface can be the local endpoint of the ssh tunnel. And
> so it is correct to use 127.0.0.1:<port> as the socket address for
> accessing the remote service.
>
> Sven

This is not what I was talking about. I was talking about having 127.0.0.1 pointing to the remote host in /etc/hosts like OP did. Received on Mon May 08 2006 - 18:51:27 CDT

Re: Oracle 9i - Putty - tnsping works - connection does not!