Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

[dhk]

On 02/24/2011 03:01 PM, Matthew Marlowe wrote:
> On Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:09:22 am dhk wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I still haven't gotten this to work.  Am I the only one using this?  The
>>>> "ssh -i .ssh/id_dsa.pub host" didn't work.  I get a message "Read from
>>>> socket failed: Connection reset by peer" with or without the -i option.
>>>>
>
> I encountered a similar, if not the same, problem this morning.
> Upgraded SSH, rebooted server, and no longer able to login.  Logs showed
> errors I had not seen before.
>
> I managed to solve the problem when I noticed that ssh'ing to the fqdn of the
> server failed, but ssh'ing to the server hostname worked.  This implied there
> might be an issue with the known_hosts file, so I blew away that on both the
> client and server and all was well.
>
> I'm guessing the upgrade modified the default ssh host keys, the new code
> somehow doesn't give the normal error about discrepencies in known_hosts, and
> consequently although ones user keys are still fine, it fails.  The issue here
> is really the new error isn't nearly as understandable as the old.
>
> Anyhow, try it and I hope it works.
>
> Matt

Thanks, but I've tried that.  ssh'ing to the hostname and loopback
address work.  However, when I go out to the WAN it doesn't.  So I can't
ssh user@123.123.123.123 even though I have port 22 open on the switch
for my ip.