ssh problem

Amichai Rotman amichai at iglu.org.il
Sat Jun 16 11:12:45 UTC 2012


I'd check the Syslog for clues. If nothing's there -

I used to have the same problem when connecting over a Firewall too. I now
use the PUTTY SSH client and set the Keep Alive to -9. That did the trick
for me...

HTH,

Amichai.

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On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: rikona <rikona at sonic.net>
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Saturday, 16 June 2012, 1:49
> > Subject: ssh problem
> >
> > ssh stops working. I initiate the ssh contact in terminal; connects
> > reliably. I can ^C to stop it OK. I sometimes get a "broken pipe"
> > message, but can reconnect easily from the CLI.
> >
> > The problem is sometimes [more often than not] ssh just quits working
> > - no message in terminal, and ^C will NOT do anything. Terminal is not
> > responding to keyboard input. If I close the terminal window it warns
> > me that something is still running and it will stop if I close
> > terminal. I usually just close the window and start ssh again in a new
> > terminal window.
> >
> > What might be happening to ssh? What is the best way to diagnose this?
> > Best of all, is there a way to keep this from happening? It has become
> > a PITA. Before the last few updates, I do not recall this happening. I
> > run 10.04, updated.
>
>
> I had this last week. Same symptoms. I changed the IP of the machine I was
> working from and it fixed it for good. I think there were two identical IPs
> on the network but I'm not certain as I was in a hurry!
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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> Matt
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