Re: possible ssh problem
Paul Scott wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I started asking about this recently from a slightly different point of
> view.
>
> My desktop computer is not always easily accessible. I often access it from
> my laptop through dyndns.org.
>
> I can ping my desktop from my laptop with its dyndns.org address. The
> address is maintained by ddclient.
>
> From several months ago ssh to that same address times out. (This worked for
> years before that.)
>
> I don't know how to diagnose this.
dyndns and similar services map a domain name to an IP
address when they get a notification from your desktop (or
whereever the dyndns client is running) that the IP address has
changed.
If you are trying to ssh in during a time between when the IP
address has changed and when the client notifies dyndns, it will
fail.
The first questions, then:
what machine is notifying dyndns?
what software is it using for that?
how does it detect a new IP address?
how often does it run?
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