Stephen Gran on 21 Oct 2003 09:05:02 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] SSH & SSL not playing well together


On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 06:51:11AM -0400, Jon Nelson said:
> 
> Mental said:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:58:59PM -0400, Jon Nelson wrote:
> >> I have been working on some php scripting for my webmail client which
> >> runs
> >> over a SSL connection.  When I am working on the scripts from home I ssh
> >> in to the same box serving the webmail client and after a few minutes I
> >> lose the ssh connection with an error like "Software connection reset by
> >> host."  There are no errors in /var/log/messages.
> >>
> >> If I ssh into another box on my office network and then ssh into the box
> >> running the webmail client over the local net I have no problems. The
> >> webmail server has a local and external interface.
> >>
> >> I have experienced this problem with both putty an cygwin and exploiter
> >> and mozilla.
> >>
> >
> > Is nat involved? Are you just hitting the tcp timeout for idle
> > connections in whatever the nat software is? Thats what I've seen cause
> > that frequently.
> 
> Nope.  No nat.  I can also be in the middle of typing and the connection
> is lost.

Try a few times with a lot of verbose output (-v -v -v -v or something -
double check the man page, though).  That may give you some clues.  If
not, post the output, one for each box.

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