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

["Jon Nelson" <quincy@linuxnotes.net>]

Tom Ryan said:
> Sounds like a "misconfigured" hardware firewall..i

No hardware, just iptables.

>
> 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..

Nothing in the logs about it restarting.

>
> 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
>> > --
>> > Trooper Jon S. Nelson, Linux Certified Admin., CCNA
>> > Pa. State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigation
>> > Computer Crimes Unit
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>> > jonelson@state.pa.us
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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