While we're admitting silly things we've done.... Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze? After a few moments of confusion it suddenly dawned. ssh. network. There's a dependency there...
So, I created a new ssh session. But still couldn't connect to the server! I had to go to the keyboard on the server, and futz around trying to get ssh to work - maybe the networking restart stuffed something up. But it seemed to working OK on the server. It turns out that, coincidentally, my laptop WiFi connection went poof at the same time as I did the network restart on the server and I hadn't noticed. removed the wifi module, and re-inserted it and I was away. On a side note, port 22 of the server, which is open to the internet through the firewall, had nearly 5000 breakin attempts last night. After less than 2 days open. I'm using the default ssh-server install. I hope it's secure enough. Will check it tonight.... On 29/09/05, John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that was singularly irritating.
