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Re: IDL licenses thru a tunnel? [message #34419 is a reply to message #34388] Tue, 18 March 2003 10:18 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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Craig Markwardt wrote:

>
> h_chapman@fastmail.fm (Henry) writes:
>>
>> Another interesting thing I learned from the globetrotter site is that
>> if you set the SERVER port to 27000 instead of idl's usual 1700, then
>> you only need @hostname instead of 1700@hostname for your
>> LM_LICENSE_FILE. 27000 is the default. So one of many ways of
>> tunnelling (this works for me) is:
>>
>> export LM_LICENSE_FILE=@localhost
>> ssh -f -NL 27000:localhost:1700 myserver.com
>> ssh -f -NL 59000:localhost:59000 myserver.com
>> idl
>>
>> type everything as written, except for myserver.com, which is the
>> remote machine running the license server.
>
> Hmmm, I still find that this give the same kind of server lookup error
> that the original poster was reporting.
>
> Because the *server*'s configuration file contains the name
> myserver.com, and reports that back to the client, the client will
> attempt to make a connection to myserver.com no matter what, and this
> will be blocked by the firewall. That's why I had to fiddle with the
> /etc/hosts table.
>
> Craig

just an idea did you have thougt about an alias in hosts.

Reiamr

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