[GLLUG] A weird networking problem. Help!

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 05:28:45PM +0100, Greater London Linux UUG wrote:
> I have the most bizarre networking problem and I'm struggling to think
> what could possibly be causing it (other than a failing hack attempt by
> the NSA or the like - I don't think I'd be interesting enough for anyone
> to deliberately try to intercept my communications though)
> 
> The symptoms manifest as failing (outbound, haven't tried inbound while
> it's happening) SSH connections. The SSH connections seem to fail to
> anywhere.  But http and https connections to the same host work fine.
> (and there's no MITM certificate interception happening). Running ssh
> and telling it to connect to a non ssh service fails in the way you
> expect. Running SSH to an ssh service "hangs" and eventually times out.

Have you tried connecting with telnet:

telnet machine.name 22

This might not tell much, but is such a simple test that it is not worth not doing.

This will tell you if it is a ssh problem or a routing/connectivity issue.

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