[nflug] SSH Error out of no where

Mark Musone mmusone at shatterit.com
Wed Nov 14 09:33:49 EST 2007


That's because you're a forensics/security obsessed addict ;)

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Brad Bartram
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:24 AM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] SSH Error out of no where

Just to throw this out there, but whenever something like that happens where
-

x was running perfect for y length of time, but all of a sudden
without any changes being performed, x flaked out

The first thing I do is check the system over for signs of intrusion.
Not saying that's what it is, but things like that make the ol' spidey
sense start to tingle.

Brad

On Nov 14, 2007 9:08 AM, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that on a box that I routinely log into, but it's a
> time-out thing. I didn't look into it in depth but there seems to be an
> inactivity time-out that is now enabled in the default ssh config.
> That's not going to be your problem though, you should check that sshd
> is running in the first place but you'll probably have to wait till 7
> for that.
>
>
> Franklin Kumro Jr wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > My Ubuntu box has been running perfectly for weeks now, and I have
> > always been able to access the machine via ssh. I get into work this
> > morning and I need to grab some data from that machine only to receive
> > "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host". I'm
> > confused because yesterday this worked :( The machine has been hard
> > rebooted for shits and giggles, didn't fix a thing. Any ideas? I wont
> > have access to the machine until ~7pm tonight and I would love to have
> > the data now though.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Frank
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