UDP Port Fowarding: channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

Question

My situation is as follows:

I have currently trying to have a program between two Hosts send UDP packets over a SSH Tunnel. There is also a host intermediate between the two hosts. Note Server01 separates two subnets

Subnet: //// 10.11.X.X ///////// 192.168.X.X
Host: Client <------> Server01 <-----> Server02

I have successfully established a SSH connection and have used RSA key's so passwords are not needed.

I than followed this tutorial:

SSH Port Forwarding for UDP

In summary it tells me to use socat to configure a TCP-UDP relay on server01 by typing in:

server01$ socat tcp4-listen:8000,reuseaddr,fork udp:server02:53

and a UDP-TCP relay on the client using socat also:

client$ socat -T15 udp4-recvfrom:53000,reuseaddr,fork tcp:localhost:8000

Now comes the problem. When I attempt to have my program create a socket on the localhost UDP Port 53000 and send data,

channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused
channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

I believe my program is fine because when I put server02 on the same subnet as client my programs will exchange UDP packets perfectly.

Is there a setting I need to enable for my program to access the UDP port 53000 Socket? Or is it just impossible to create a socket on the UDP port because socat using it? I've been stuck on this for a while... Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I realized the program needed to be run as sudo so it could access the port... Hopefully this helps someone in the future.

EDITED: The c program I have needs sudo permission to connect a socket to the UDP PORT 53000 and to send packets through that port.