can't ssh out?

[Fernando Duran]

Hello,

have you tried ssh'ing out from the laptop to other
servers? (to rule out the server)

what happens if you ssh localhost ?

try more debugging: "ssh -vvv host"

how does the ssh config file look like? ie: 
$ grep ^[^#] /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Fernando

--- Matt Price <matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> ho folks,
> 
> on an otherwise functioning laptop, I've suddenly
> found I can't ssh out,
> although, fortunately, I can ssh IN, so my data's
> not entirely trapped.
> I've tried from various user accounts, including one
> fresh one, so the
> problem doesn't seem to be in the ~/.ssh/ directory.
>  
> 
> ssh -v [host] gives this:
> 
> ~$ ssh -v 192.168.2.210
> OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-8ubuntu1, OpenSSL 0.9.8c 05 Sep
> 2006
> debug1: Reading configuration data
> /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for 192.*
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to 192.168.2.210 [192.168.2.210]
> port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/matt/.ssh/identity type
> -1
> debug1: identity file /home/matt/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/matt/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software
> version
> OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-7ubuntu1
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_4.3p2 Debian-7ubuntu1 pat
> OpenSSH*
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3p2
> Debian-8ubuntu1
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> Configuration file does not specify default realm
> 
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> A parameter was malformed
> Validation error
> 
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> Configuration file does not specify default realm
> 
> debug1: An invalid name was supplied
> A parameter was malformed
> Validation error
> 
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
> debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
> debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192)
> sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
> Warning: Permanently added '192.168.2.210' (RSA) to
> the list of known
> hosts.
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> ------------------------------
> ...after this the process just hangs.  Meanwhile on
> the server side I
> get this in /var/log/auth.log:
> sshd[PID]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for
> 192.168.2.104
> 
> I'm not sure what the trouble can be.  As I
> mentioned, the process works
> fine in the opposite direction so there's no issue
> with the network
> connection, and i don't believe i've modified the
> files in /etc/ssh/ for
> a while -- certainly not recently enough to have
> caused this problem
> directly.  I am running ubuntu feisty, so this may
> be a bug in ssh, but
> i don't seem anything reported on launchpad and this
> is pretty odd
> behaviour.  So I just wondered if there was an ssh
> guru out there who
> could help me interpret these messages.  
> 
> thanks,
> matt
> 	
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matt Price
> History Dept
> University of Toronto
> matt.price-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
> 


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Fernando Duran
http://www.fduran.com

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