From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PsxO1-0002nh-Kz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:07:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C923DE06CC for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18013E01F1 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:09:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [67.80.94.242]) by mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-9.20 (built Jul 15 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LH6009V39SCKO90@mta6.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:09:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:09:38 -0500 From: dhk Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem In-reply-to: <4D6700F5.30504@optonline.net> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4D679C02.6030408@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 References: <4D63A165.4000007@optonline.net> <201102241201.12178.matt@deploylinux.net> <4D66D2FC.1010003@optonline.net> <201102242330.10186.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4D6700F5.30504@optonline.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110105 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.7 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e9a00cc2fb1bc919b769792c00b4647e On 02/24/2011 08:08 PM, dhk wrote: > On 02/24/2011 06:30 PM, Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 24 February 2011 21:51:56 dhk wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> Just to state the obvious, have your tried something like: >> >> $ nc -v -z 123.123.123.123 22 >> 123.123.123.123 (ssh) open >> >> from a WAN client to make sure that the port is open? > > I don't have the nc comand. What package is it in? > > The nc command does nothing when run from the same host I'm trying to ssh in to. I'm not sure what that means other than it can't make a connection. With the -w option I get: # nc -w 3 -v -z 123.123.123.123 22 ool-43505ef2.dyn.optonline.net [123.123.123.123] 22 (ssh) : Connection timed out