ssh session freezes in dapper

[hemant]

On 2/5/07, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> 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.

It would be difficult to take data from both end of things. because I
really doesn't have much control over servers on which i connect.
Although I can cerainly investigate my end. But as Matthew said, i
can't decrpyt that information manually.