Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:59:28 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An ssh Question Message-ID: <468FC670.9060903@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <20070707090248.GB62156@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <468F4635.4020204@tundraware.com> <20070707090248.GB62156@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 02:52:21AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> I have a machine that is my firewall/gateway to a private network NATing >> non-routable addresses. I can ssh at-will from hosts on the private >> network to machines out on the net, but when I try to ssh from the >> firewall machine to a particular address, it just hangs and eventually >> times out. Verbose output is: >> >> OpenSSH_4.5p1 FreeBSD-20061110, OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 >> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config >> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 >> debug1: Connecting to xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com [x.x.x.x] port 22. >> >> >> What is really baffling is that if I try the exact same thing from, say, >> a cygwin session on a host on the private network - this works fine. >> So ... it's not a firewall problem as near as I can tell. > > It sure sounds like a firewall problem to me. Why do you think > otherwise? Because machines *behind* the firewall can get out to the machine in question, but the firewall machine itself cannot... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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