Re: [ILUG] Openssh daemon strangeness

From: Philip Reynolds (phil at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Wed 11 Sep 2002 - 16:33:44 IST


John Allman's [allmanj at domain houseofireland.com] 38 lines of wisdom included:
> John Allman wrote:
>
> > Hi - i have a webserver hosted out in esat which is no longer allowing
> > me to set up an ssh session to it. bizarrely it is sending some
> > packets back to me - the connection doesn't time out, but i never get
> > a prompt to log in. the reason i am writing is to see if anyone has
> > any suggestions that might possibly allow me to avoid a trip out there
> > to restart the daemon...
> >
> > i tried to pull down a hefty amount of stuff from it yesterday (rsync
> > over ssh) and that may have something to do with its odd behaviour.
> >
> > below is a tcpdump for about a minute after i attempt to start a new
> > ssh session. can anybody suggest anything to allow me to stay seated
> > on my ass here?
>
>
> this is probably more helpful:
>
> [john at domain local john]$ ssh -v remote.machine.there
> SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
> Compiled with SSL (0x0090581f).
> debug: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug: Seeding random number generator
> debug: ssh_connect: getuid 525 geteuid 0 anon 0
> debug: Connecting to remote.machine.there [remote.machine.there] port 22.
> debug: Seeding random number generator
> debug: Allocated local port 893.
                             ^^^^^
                               |
                        *BING BING BING*

Use:

ssh -P -v remote.machine.there

Phil.

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  Philip Reynolds        
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