Quiet noisy ssh port forwarding errors

When you are connecting via ssh to another machine and portfowarding like:

ssh person@machine.name -L 8000:localhost:8000

And there is no server running on port 8000, then you might be getting errors like:

channel 2: open failed: connect failed: Connection refused

If this is the case, you can add the -q flag to your ssh command. The ssh man page documents -q as:

-q      Quiet mode.  Causes most warning and diagnostic messages to be

So the whole ssh command would look like:

ssh person@machine.name -L 8000:localhost:8000 -q

Hopefully this solves your problem!

H/T Brian Dunn

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