Quoth Raphael Crawford-Marks, > about two weeks ago, my server (running Potato) stopped accepting ssh, > smtp and telnet requests. I would be able to connect on the respective > ports, but would be disconnected shortly thereafter before receiving a > login prompt. I've uninstalled and reinstalled all of the packages. The > weird thing is, Apache and a mud I run on port 9000 are working just > fine. My server is doing IPmasq, and any computer on the local network > can get in just fine (ssh, telnet and smtp). I'm not certain it's the same problem, but I also recently had a problem using SSH to connect to certain machines. It seems that the cause was that some time recently ssh changed so that it's reverse socket (probably not the right term, the port that it connects to on your machine to form a socket to port 22 on the other machine) connects to a priveleged port (below 1024 or something). On my machine, these ports were firewalled. Sorry, that's probably a really bad description. The solution for me was to use the -P option on ssh (Don't allocate a privileged port). This may possibly be your ssh problem if you have a firewall. Don't know about your smtp and telnet problems though. hth, damon -- Damon Muller (dm-sig6@empire.net.au) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) -
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