Re: ssh/sshd connects but does nothing, putty/sshd works fine
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:11:58PM +0000, Randy Orrison wrote:
> I'm trying to solve a puzzling problem. I can use putty on my WindowsXP
> notebook at work to connect to my home debian box, or to my debian box
> at work, and it works fine. When I try to connect from my debian box at
> work to the box at home, it connects (according to the logs on both
> sides) but doesn't give me a prompt, and eventually times out. Details:
>
> debian box at work:
> debian 3.0
> kernel: 2.4.18-1-686
> ssh -V: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian 1:3.8.1p1-6.backports.org.1,
> OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001
>
> debian box at home:
> debian 3.1
> kernel: 2.6.10-1-k7
> ssh -V: OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.4,
> OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
>
> When I connect from putty, auth.log at home shows:
>
> Feb 21 16:59:53 evo sshd[16697]:
> Connection from 80.46.104.22 port 59507
> Feb 21 16:59:54 evo sshd[16697]:
> reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for
> dsl-80-46-104-22.access.uk.tiscali.com failed
> - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT!
Hm get your DNS setup right or set "UseDNS no" in your
sshd_config. That should both solve the problem.
Donno the exact error mesage from the tcp_wrapper so check
/etc/hosts.deny aswell for a line like PARANOID:all or
PARANOID: ssh
HTH
Sven
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