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
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...)?
