[GTALUG] SSH Hangs

James Knott james.knott at rogers.com
Fri Feb 13 15:05:10 UTC 2015


On 02/13/2015 09:54 AM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
>> However when I try to ssh using my dynamic dns (or the external IP), ssh
>> will hang and never return.
>
> I had a similar problem a few years ago on Bell DSL, the issue was I
> was SSHing into one of their FreeBSD routers (they fixed this issue a
> year ago by blocking incoming on port 22), I fixed it by change the
> SSH port to 2222.

How does something with an IP address go to the wrong device???  If you
have your own public IP, that router should not be doing anything other
than forwarding to your address.



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