Re: [PLUG] Can someone explain this ssh behavior?

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

kaze said:
> When I ssh over the Internet from home to this Linux box I'm setting up as
> a
> SpamAssassin server elsewhere the session just hangs there, and will
> timeout.
>
> If I remotely access a Windows box at that same location and ssh with the
> Putty client to the box I'm one router hop away and can log in fine. Once
> this ssh session (from the Windows box at the same location) is up, the
> original one from home directly to the box will work - even if I start the
> one from home first it just hangs there, but once the local one logs in
> the
> remote one pops up with the logon prompt.
>
> What's going on here? Is this by design or just some weirdness?
>
> - Zake

Do you have a firewall and/or router at home?  I had a similar problem and
found that my firewall (Zonealarm) was dropping some of the packets even
though ssh.exe was trusted.  Correcting that fixed part of my connection
problems.  I then upgraded the firmware of my Linksys router and that
fixed the rest of the problem.

Jon
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