OpenSSH Always Hangs When Connecting to Remote

[Darren Tucker]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Ángel González <keisial at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> New versions tend to add more key exchanges, so yes. You can also use
> ssh -o KexAlgorithms=<algos use by dropbear> to test the hypothesis.
>

Note that this is not a definitive test because the server will still offer
its full list of key exchange and cipher methods, so depending on exactly
what and where the problem is, this could still potentially tickle MTU
blackhole problems.  You'd need to restrict the OpenSSH
server's KexAlgorithms, HostKeyAlgorithms, Ciphers and Compression settings
for an accurate test, and note that this configuration would be
significantly less safe than OpenSSH's defaults.

I'd try the MTU thing in the link I sent you.  Alternatively, if you have
access to both ends via some other means, find the ssh connection in the
output of "netstat" on both sides and check if the SendQ column stays
non-zero indicating that the network traffic never get acknowledged.

$ telnet openssh 22
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7.1
SSH-2.0-me
t �?�� �P6���}:�
Ydiffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1'ssh-rsa,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,
ssh-ed25519lchacha20-poly1305 at openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,
aes128-gcm at openssh.com,aes256-gcm at openssh.comlchacha20-poly1305@openssh.com
,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm at openssh.com,
aes256-gcm at openssh.com�umac-64-etm at openssh.com,umac-128-etm at openssh.com,
hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,
hmac-sha1-etm at openssh.com,umac-64 at openssh.com,umac-128 at openssh.com
,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1�umac-64-etm at openssh.com,
umac-128-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm at openssh.com,
hmac-sha2-512-etm at openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm at openssh.com,umac-64 at openssh.com,
umac-128 at openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 none,
zlib at openssh.com none,zlib at openssh.com
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed

$ telnet dropear 22
Trying 192.168.34.1...
Connected to rtr.
Escape character is '^]'.
SSH-2.0-dropbear_0.46
SSH-2.0-me
�� �Hlm�O�)d��8� diffie-hellman-group1-sha1ssh-rs3des-cb3des-cbc
hmac-sha1,hmac-md5 hmac-sha1,hmac-md5 none none �h8u��!
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed

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