On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 01:14:43PM +0100, Robin Cornelius wrote: [snip] > But i'm having some issues, i'm loosing my SSH connection then not able > to reconnect for 5 minutes so it looks like some protection is kicking > in and filtering me out for a short time? Just today, I've had an e-mail exchange with Raphael Hertzog (wearing his admin@alioth hat) about my similar problems with svn.debian.org (as some of you might have noticed two or three very weird xmahjongg commits not followed by anything yesterday). It turns out that I'd guessed right - there is something like an IDS installed on alioth, it's called "fail2ban", and it was very, very unhappy about my failed attempts to authenticate with several SSH keys. Now, I've got several SSH keys loaded into ssh-agent, since I log into several herds of machines which have nothing in common. The alioth key was *not* the first one that my SSH client tried, so alioth logged an auth failure, then my SSH client tried the good key, alioth let me in... and in the next svn operation, alioth logged another failure, and fail2ban kicked in and locked me out for 10 minutes. So... if you're using more than one SSH key to authenticate, it might help to provide a specific configuration for git.debian.org in your ~/.ssh/config file; something like: Host git.debian.org User what-have-you IdentityFile id-alioth (or whatever the name of your SSH identity file for alioth is) Hope that helps! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@space.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 .siht ekil ti gnidaer eb d'uoy ,werbeH ni erew ecnetnes siht fI
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