'ssh -v user@hostname' gives more output and... on the server side there
is a switch for sshd that keeps it in the foreground and spits out lots of
nice debugging information.
and of course, make sure that both your client and you server are
uptodate. i assume you are using openssl+openssh?
sach
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Erik Curiel wrote:
>
> I'm having difficulty ssh'ing into my box at home from outside. When I'm
> at my home box, if I ssh into another box and then subsequently try to ssh
> from that box back remotely into my home box (making, as it were, a closed
> loop), then I can always do it no problem. When I'm physically at the
> remote box and try to ssh in, I usually can't do it. I sometimes am able
> to do it once, the first time I try to after logging in, but in any event
> never more than once (ssh just hangs thereafter), and usually I cannot
> even do it once.
>
> Does any one have any suggestions about what may be going on, or what I
> may try in the way of debugging?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Erik
>
>
>
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