Re: ssh to RH9 fails

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 12/11/03 

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:08:17 +0100

Thomas K wrote:
> Hello NG
>
> I've recently got a problem with conecting to my server. When I try to
> ssh in to the server - nothing happens! And when i nmap it i can see
> that port 22 i open:
>
> Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
> Interesting ports on xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx):
> (The 1589 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> Port State Service
> 22/tcp open ssh
> 69/tcp filtered tftp
> 111/tcp open sunrpc
> 135/tcp filtered loc-srv
> 136/tcp filtered profile
> 137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
> 138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
> 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
> 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
> 593/tcp filtered http-rpc-epmap
> 1434/tcp filtered ms-sql-m
> 4444/tcp filtered krb524
>
> I guess that my sshd deamon is down or somehow not accepting incomming
> connections.
> Any idear on what to do? The server i located pretty far form me, so I'm
> looking for an other solution than physical acces to the computer.

Make a call and ask a person to hit the reset button and see if the reboot
fixes the problem.

  //Aho