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Date:      19 Sep 2004 20:32:15 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Kevin Stevens <freebsd@pursued-with.net>
Cc:        "<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ssh connection
Message-ID:  <44r7oxye40.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <BA36931E-0A60-11D9-AABF-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net>
References:  <BD737DD7.2F92%hpota@mac.com> <BA36931E-0A60-11D9-AABF-000A959CEE6A@pursued-with.net>

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Kevin Stevens <freebsd@pursued-with.net> writes:

> On Sep 19, 2004, at 10:17, Pota Kalima wrote:
> 
> > On 19/9/04 5:56 pm, "Kevin Stevens" <freebsd@pursued-with.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> What happens if you try to ssh to the machine from itself?
> >>
> >> KeS
> >>
> >
> > Tried to ssh to machine itself and got the following:
> >
> > $ Ssh 192.168.0.5
> > The authenticity of host '192.168.0.5 (192.168.0.5)' can't be
> > established.
> > DSA key fingerprint is 42:98:e3:11:
> > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? Yes
> > Warning: Permanently added '192.168.0.5' (DSA) to the list of known
> > hosts.
> >
> > [There was a prolonged pause here, I almost rebooted the machine]
> >
> > Sep 19 18:10:00 localhost sshd[581]: fatal: Timeout before
> > authentification
> > for 192.168.0.5
> > Connection closed by 192.168.0.5
> 
> Well, there you go.  Better get it working locally before worrying
> about connecting from other machines - at least it's easier to
> troubleshoot that way.  You can start adding -v's to your session
> command to get more details.

I suspect that making sshd log more verbosely will be important, not
just seeing the error messages from ssh.



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