Re: ssh just "hangs"

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>]

Can you ping, or telnet to the remote host? it could be down at the moment

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Emre wrote:

 | Hello everyone,
 | 
 | My ssh client is kinda messed up for some reason:  When I do the
 | following
 | it just hangs there and does nothing
 | 
 | bash-2.03# ssh -l user -v host.com
 | 
 | SSH Version 1.2.27 [i386-unknown-openbsd2.5], protocol version 1.5.
 | Compiled with RSAREF.
 | skippy: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
 | skippy: ssh_connect: getuid 0 geteuid 0 anon 0
 | skippy: Connecting to host.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22.
 | skippy: Allocated local port 884.
 | 
 | That's all I get.  It hangs there for a while and then after a couple
 | of minutes it says this:
 | 
 | skippy: connect: Connection timed out
 | skippy: Trying again...
 | skippy: Connecting to host.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] port 22.
 | skippy: Allocated local port 906.
 | 
 | and this goes on like that.
 | Does anyone know why this is happening?  It always woked with my crappy
 | Linux boxes, but not here.  Also it hangs when I try to update CVS and
 | such.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  Any help would be greatly
 | appreciated.
 | Cheers & Greetings
 | 
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 | |Emre Yildirim                                                   |
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