Unable to connect via SSH

Discussion in 'Server Operation' started by neil6179, Feb 20, 2007.

  1. neil6179

    neil6179 New Member

    Hello all,

    I am trying to connect to one of my servers in a data centre via SSH, but as of this morning I seem unable to. Can anyone explain to me where the problem may be, based on the output below from the client.

    The client hangs for a few minutes after 'debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent', before the connection being closed. This happens from all my machines so I'm assuming it's not a problem with the client.

    The client is a Ubuntu 6.06 box and the server is Mac OS X 10.3 (pretending to be a UNIX box).

    neil@ubuntu:~$ ssh -vvv [email protected]
    OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
    debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
    debug1: Applying options for *
    debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
    debug1: Connecting to www.example.com [1.2.3.4] port 22.
    debug1: Connection established.
    debug1: identity file /home/neil/.ssh/identity type -1
    debug1: identity file /home/neil/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
    debug1: identity file /home/neil/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
    debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_3.6.1p1+CAN-2004-0175
    debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.6.1p1+CAN-2004-0175 pat OpenSSH_3.*
    debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
    debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3
    debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK
    debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
    Connection closed by 1.2.3.4

    Any help would be much appreciated as I'm unable to connect to the server via any other method.

    Thanks
    Neil
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    I don't see any errors in the output.
    Maybe you should reset the system and try a new login after it has come up again? If that doesn't help - do you have a rescue system on the server that you can boot into to repair the system (and to scan it for malware/rootkits/trojans...)?
     

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