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

[Tom Ryan <tomryan@camlaw.rutgers.edu>]

Sounds like a "misconfigured" hardware firewall..

or.. a firewall under heavy attack thats resetting itself every so often 
and when it fails over to the backup, ssh drops off.. nachi/etc are fun 
aren't they..

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jon Nelson wrote:

> Jon Nelson said:
> > 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.
> 
> I started ssh very verbosely and this was the error when I lost the
> connection:
> 
> debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
> debug3: channel 0: status: The following connections are open:
>   #0 client-session (t4 r0 i0/0 o0/0 fd 4/5)
> debug3: channel 0: close_fds r 4 w 5 e 6
> Read from remote host 192.204.186.115: Connection reset by peer
> Connection to 192.204.186.115 closed.
> debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 104 bytes in 1815.1 seconds
> debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.1
> debug1: Exit status -1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Jon
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> >
> 
> 
> 

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