ssh session freezes in dapper

[Scott Kitterman]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:06:30 +0530 hemant <gethemant at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2/3/07, hemant <gethemant at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I connect to remote machines from my local dapper workstation,
>> after sometime my SSH session hangs without any apparent reason.
>>
>> I have literally searched internet for hours for a solution and people
>> seem to have following reasons for this:
>>
>> - Poor DNS
>> - Packet fragmentation and firewall problem, and bulk text freezes the 
session
>> - Inactivity timeout.
>>
>> Although I won't call my DNS to be solid, but when I connect to the
>> same machines using putty from Windows(which uses zonealarm firewall),
>> ssh sessions work fine and doesn't hang as they hang in Linux.

Take some data (preferably from the boxes on both ends of the connection) 
using Ethereal/Wireshark or tcpdump.  If you can get the data you should be 
able to see what is holding things up.

Scott K