unexpected problem

[Bachman Kharazmi]

hiya, thanks for your reply.

bkw at tellus ~ $ nc neptune 22
SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1
 punt!
bkw at tellus ~ $

hope this can help

/bkw

> Bob Proulx
> Bachman Kharazmi wrote:
>> I've had a dedicated box running for ages in my LAN without any kind of
>> problems. Ssh has been installed and useable till yesterday when a
>> problem
>> pop up.
>> [...]
>> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_3.8p1
>> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
>> Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer
>
> Do you have netcat available?  Usually installed as either 'nc' or
> 'netcat' depending upon the distro.  (Red Hat installs it as 'nc',
> SuSE installs it as 'netcat', Debian installs it as 'nc' with a
> symlink 'netcat' for compatibility.)  Use control-C to break out of
> the command after it has given the banner string.
>
>   nc localhost 22
>   SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian 1:3.8.1p1-4
>
> What does it say when talking to your remote box?  I imagine at that
> point it would say the same error message that ssh is giving.  That
> would indicate to me that your box is in a bad state and would need
> more serious attention such as a power cycle to reboot the it.  If you
> can't talk to it on the network then there is nothing that ssh can do
> further.
>
> Bob
>