SSH Connection Attempt Hangs

[Leo Cacciari]

Il giorno lun, 20/07/2009 alle 04.57 -0500, Jay Ridgley ha scritto:
> Good Morning Y'all,
> 
> I just finished converting my firewall(two NICs) to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 
> with the latest updates. I am pleased with the results except ---
> 
> I can do SSH from the firewall(mateo) to any of my local systems, 
> however, when I attempt to go from a local system(polar) to my firewall 
> it hangs and NEVER asks for the users password. Ideas?
> 
> jay at mateo ~$ ssh polar <--- works
> jay at polar ~$ ssh mateo <--- HANGS
> 
> I am also using firestarter... prior to installing firestarter if I 
> tried to get from polar to mateo the connection was refused. Why the 
> change?
> 
> NOTE: Prior to converting the firewall system to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS from 
> RedHat 7.2 I had no problem with SSH. But, I was not pleased with the 
> overall setup and RH 7.2 is a bit long in the tooth!
> 
Hi, 

 the most probable thing I can think of is that you did a too good job
closing your firewall. Are you sure that connection to port 22 of the
firewall are allowed from local network?

Leo

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Leo Cacciari
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