An ssh Question

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Sat Jul 7 09:02:50 UTC 2007


On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing
> non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private
> network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the
> firewall machine to a particular address, it just hangs and eventually
> times out. Verbose output is:
> 
>   OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004
>   debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
>   debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
>   debug1: Connecting to xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22.
> 
> 
> What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same thing from, say,
> a cygwin session on a host on the private network - this works fine.
> So ... it's not a firewall problem as near as I can tell.

It sure sounds like a firewall problem to me. Why do you think
otherwise?
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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