[plug] ssh question

[Alastair Irvine]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:59 pm, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> I've changed the port for ssh on all my servers except the
> internal ones. Fram a remote location I tried to access one of my
> internal servers from a server that I was able to ssh to and from
> there I wanted to ssh to the internal server.  However, I was not
> able to.  I ran a nmap scan against the ip address with the
> following command nmap -v --version-trace [ip_address_of_server].
>  This showed me that the ssh port was open, yet I could not
> access this server.  Does anyone have any idea what may be the
> problem?

[Note: the issue may have already been resolved, but this reply is 
also for those reading the archives who may have a similar issue.]

Your description indicates that you are trying to connect to an 
internal server from an "edge" server.  Does the latter machine 
also have an address on the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet?  Is your routing 
set up correctly?  Can you ping 192.168.10.184 from the edge 
machine?  Have you tried logging into the console of the edge 
machine and SSHing to 192.168.10.184?

What is the actual observed problem?  (Timeouts, error messages, 
refused password, etc.)

Try telnetting to the port; if the connection is dropped 
immediately, the fault could be due to TCP Wrappers.  Check 
your /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files.

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