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Re: IDL licenses thru a tunnel? [message #34518 is a reply to message #34419] Tue, 18 March 2003 10:23 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
R.Bauer is currently offline  R.Bauer
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I should have read the previous posting Craig, it is already described to
set an alis

Reimar

Reimar Bauer wrote:

> 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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