[nmglug] SSH problem

Bill York iago at pobox.com
Fri Mar 21 11:15:07 PDT 2008


i'll look into it - first thing monday. i'm a state employee and i got admin
time to burn.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Todd Richardson <trichardson at cvecoop.org>
wrote:

> ok 0 for 11 :P
>
> Obviously it is listening on port 22 so netstat isn't necessary...
>
> >From what I read, sshd_config is not responsible for denying hosts (its
> worth a look in your conf file, but the man pages didn't mention it.)
>
> This article- http://www.linux.com/articles/61061 - mentioned preventing
> sshd access outside your certain subnets using TCP wrappers.
> ( /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny )
>
> Its possible that FC8 sets this up automatically, so its worth a look.
>
> Otherwise I'm fresh out of suggestions.
>
> -Todd
>
>
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 11:01 -0600, Bill York wrote:
> > it's a new host on an existing subnet. i can ssh into the new host
> > from other hosts on the same subnet.
> >
> > route's not a problem. i can even ping that host from my workstation.
> > the host sees connection attempts from my workstation - it just
> > ignores them. but it answers ssh just fine from its own subnet.
> >
> > aargh.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Todd Richardson
> > <trichardson at cvecoop.org> wrote:
> >         I'm 0 for 10 on my network troubleshooting this week, but here
> >         goes:
> >
> >         Depending on how you set your network up, you may have an
> >         incorrect
> >         route between the two machines.
> >
> >         A bit more background may help resolve the problem.  Is this a
> >         completely new subnet, or is it just a new host on an
> >         established subnet
> >         in your network?
> >
> >         This is what happened to me earlier this week on a virtual
> >         machine
> >         behind a virtual router connected to my main network.
> >         Basically, I had
> >         setup the incorrect gateway on the virtual router, so that My
> >         actual
> >         router was sending the packets (good enough for ping) but the
> >         virtual
> >         router was basically black-holing the packets from the remote
> >         machine.
> >
> >         I wish I knew more about open-ssh to answer your second
> >         question.  I
> >         would think that you would at least get a connection refused
> >         if it is
> >         configured to allow local subnet, but I simply don't know for
> >         sure.
> >
> >         -Todd Richardson
> >
> >
> >         On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 10:28 -0600, Bill York wrote:
> >         > Hi all,
> >         >
> >         > I'm having an issue getting to a new host over ssh. I can
> >         get in to it
> >         > on the local network, but not from a remote network. The
> >         network based
> >         > firewalls are not an issue as I can get into other hosts on
> >         the same
> >         > network. iptables is not an issue since i've temporarily
> >         disabled it.
> >         >
> >         > a tcpdump on the remote host shows connection attemps, but
> >         no acks.
> >         >
> >         > is it possible to configure ssh to not respond to requests
> >         from
> >         > outside the local subnet?
> >         >
> >         > OS: fedora core 8
> >         >
> >         > bill
> >
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