Problem connecting to v2.9.9p2 on Solaris 8

[Markus Friedl]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:02:58AM -0500, Ed Phillips wrote:
> I ran into a weird problem yesterday where Putty can't connect to my
> OpenSSH/Sol box (and still can't ever since).  On the Putty side I get the
> error message:
> 
> "internal fault: chaos in SSH 2 transport layer"
> 
> I've attached the "sshd -d -d -d" syslog output.
> 
> Any ideas what's going wrong here?  From a layman's point of view, it
> would appear that Putty and OpenSSH can't decide on key algorithms... but
> why would this happen?  I use Putty to connect to other
> OpenSSH2.9.9p2/Sol8 installs (the same compiled code) and it works fine...

the sshd offers a ssh v2 RSA hostkey,
putty says it can only understand ssh v2 DSA hostkeys,
so they cannot agree.

i suggest to generate a SSH v2 DSA hostkey, too.