Fedora Networking :: Can't Establish A Ssh Tunnel

I have a headless server, running Fedora 13. I want to make a ssh tunnel to that server from laptop that is also running Fedora 13. Logging into that server over ssh works well, X11 forwarding also works, but I can't establish a ssh tunnel.

At the moment I was trying to connect two small python tcp sample programs, that communicate through port 8000. Running them both on my laptop works well.

What I am trying to do is that I am making two seperate ssh connections to my server, let's say it's address is myserver.com.

1) I make a 'standard' ssh connection to it

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And run the server program

2) I open another terminal window and make the tunnel

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3) I open 3rd terminal window and try to run the client program, that is trying to connect to localhost:8000.

If I understand it correctly, the client should now connect to localhost:8000, ssh would discover that and send that data to myserver.com port 8000. Then the server program on myserver.com is listening on that port and should get that data and send "hello world" string back to the client. Then the client should get that, print it to stdout and exit.

Unfortunatly all what it does is that it just hangs for about ten seconds and then says "connection lost" (timeout?)

I have tried other programs, they also timout.

By passing the -v argument to ssh it outputs:

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When I try to connect the client it prints four more lines:

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So as you see, it says that the connection times out..Also can anybody tell what the "Unspecified GSS failure." means? The possible break in attempt is caused by connecting to the server using the myserver.com address while being in the same local network with the server. If I connect using server's local ip address (ie. 192.168.1.xxx), the message dissappears.