[ale] more fun with ssh

[David Tomaschik]

What?  Since when does SSH do an ident request?  I just did a tcpdump
while SSHing to another host on my LAN, and there was *no* ident
traffic involved.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com> wrote:
> Assuming the DNS is OK, your ssh client (the side that initiates the
> connection) likely is NOT responding to the ssh server's ident request.
>
> >From the server (that is running sshd listening TCP port 22), give the
> command:
>
>   telnet client-system 113
>
> If you don't get the server to say something like:
>
>   Connected to thief.bill-gates.com (111.222.333.444).
>   Escape character is '^]'.
>
> or if when you then type a few random characters and 2 newlines.
>
> you don't get output back, that is your problem.
>
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:51:15AM -0400, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> Why would one of the hosts in my network take a very long time (over 10
>> seconds) to negotiate a connection from another host on the same lan. Using
>> IP address only, no DNS resolution involved.
>>
>> This would only be an interesting  oddity if it didn't time out nagios
>> checks.
>>
>> Wolf
>>
>> http://evergreen-community-01.lyrasistechnology.org
>> http://sourcefreedom.com
>> Apache developer:
>> wolfhalton at apache.org
>
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