Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:53:22 -0500 From: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH times out - "Server unexpectedly closed network connection" Message-ID: <20050831195322.GG31769@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <43160607.9060207@adelphia.net> References: <43160607.9060207@adelphia.net>
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:33:27PM -0400, Robert G. wrote:
> SSH doesn't appear to be working on my remote server. I can
> connect fine, and am prompted with "login as: " with Putty, but
> when I enter my username it sits and hangs there for about a
> minute before a message comes up that says "Server unexpectedly
> closed network connection". SSH was working fine this morning
> around 11am. I just got back and now it's hanging. The only
> changes to the /etc/ssh/sshd_config that I made were to add my one
> user account. I rebooted and it worked fine this morning, so I
> don't know what the problem is now as I haven't touched it.
> Any ideas?
Could be DNS-related.
# grep -i DNS /etc/ssh/sshd_config
UseDNS no
FreeBSD has UseDNS on by default; I had to turn it off. I was
experiencing a similar hang-for-a-while-then-die thing.
If that doesn't help, look at the output of ssh -vvv $REMOTE_HOST.
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