Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-24 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:52 +1200, Jim Tittsler wrote: Have you tried using SSH's ControlMaster feature? ('man ssh_config') You can establish an initial SSH connection and subsequent connections to the host will reuse the master connection instead of initiating new ones. Jim - just wanted

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-24 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 23 Jul 2009 14:40:03 NZST +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: Sometime in the last few months Hostgator.com upgraded their firewall so that if too many connections from the same ip address get opened within a small period of time, the ip gets blocked temporarily for between 2 and 30 minutes.

Re: OT: VPN Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-23 Thread Craig Falconer
steve wrote, On 23/07/09 15:46: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:26 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: DSL 504T is fine. I've got a company with a satellite office on NI connected via OpenVPN / Samba, and keep stuff in sync over it. Both ends use these. I've given up getting decent ADSL kit, and just use

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread steve
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I have a problem working with remote servers hosted at hostgator.com using SFTP. I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the server and my local computer. Sometime in the last few months Hostgator.com upgraded

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:46 +1200, steve wrote: Knowing nothing whatsoever about hostgator, is it possible to set up your own private vpn and use that instead??? Hmmm. It's unlikely given this I'm working with clients on shared hostgator accounts with jailshell ssh rather than a dedicated

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the server and my local computer. Try using a different client, I'd try the command line client to start with. hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware

OT: VPN Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread steve
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:26 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:46 +1200, steve wrote: Knowing nothing whatsoever about hostgator, is it possible to set up your own private vpn and use that instead??? Hmmm. It's unlikely given this I'm working with clients on shared

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Jim Tittsler
On 2009-07-23 14:40, Phill Coxon wrote: The trouble is that if I copy a bunch of files, or change directories several times using the sftp:// interface, it gets triggered and I get locked out. [...] I really need some way to force the same ssh session to be used... Have you tried using SSH's

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:32 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the server and my local computer. Try using a different client, I'd try the command line client to start with. I'm

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:52 +1200, Jim Tittsler wrote: I really need some way to force the same ssh session to be used... Have you tried using SSH's ControlMaster feature? ('man ssh_config') You can establish an initial SSH connection and subsequent connections to the host will reuse the

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:58 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I'm using the GUI for a reason - it saves a massive amount of time. That's what shell expansion is for. What I actually meant was; try the command line client, if that works then perhaps it's your GUI that is the problem. hads --

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread steve
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:07 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:58 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I'm using the GUI for a reason - it saves a massive amount of time. That's what shell expansion is for. What I actually meant was; try the command line client, if that works then

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Kent Fredric
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Phill Coxon phi...@xtra.co.nz wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:32 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 14:40 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I use sftp:// in konquorer to copy files back and forth between the server and my local computer. Try

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Kent Fredric
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Hadley Rich h...@nice.net.nz wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:58 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I'm using the GUI for a reason - it saves a massive amount of time. That's what shell expansion is for. last time I used the standard sftp client ( ages ago , before I

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Hadley Rich
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:16 +1200, Kent Fredric wrote: last time I used the standard sftp client ( ages ago , before I switched to lftp ) , it neither supported shell expansion or even readline support :/ My apologies, I was thinking of scp, which works fine with shell expansion. hads --

Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:07 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: What I actually meant was; try the command line client, if that works then perhaps it's your GUI that is the problem. Ok, I get what you're saying now. It's definitely the GUI (konqueror). When I select 5 files on the remote server and

Re: OT: VPN Re: How can I limit the maximum number of outgoing SFTP connections?

2009-07-22 Thread Phill Coxon
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:45 +1200, steve wrote: DSL 504T is fine. I've got a company with a satellite office on NI connected via OpenVPN / Samba, and keep stuff in sync over it. Both ends use these. I've given up getting decent ADSL kit, and just use consumer - level stuff, but with a spare