No, I think you may have misunderstood. The problem only happens inbound on one machine. There's no outbound problem anywhere on my syst4ems. Hugh Esco writes: > From: Hugh Esco <hesco at greens.org> > > Can you ssh to some other system and ssh in turn from there? -- hugh > > At 02:11 PM 8/12/03 -0400, you wrote: > >I have been getting the following error on my Debian server running Open > >SSH 3.4p1-1 > > > >ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > > > > >Now, here's the interesting thing, it only happens from certain systems. > >In particular, it happens from my office where the IS Dept. folks, in > >their wisdom, have installed some kind of NT firewall. And, it happens > >from bumpy.braille.uwo.ca, and I have no idea what kind of firewalling > >may be going on between Bumpy and the external net at uwo.ca. > > > >But, it doesn't happen from my newly installed Red Hat Severn system > >running on my portable machine, and it doesn't happen from > >speakup.octothorp.org. > > > >It gets even more interesting: > > > >My office machine and my portable are both running fresh installs of Red > >Hat Severn. So, they should perform the same, right? Unless some > >intervening element is changing things? > > > >I believe something is being stripped. If I do -v -v I get: > > > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug3: key_read: missing whitespace > >debug2: key_type_from_name: unknown key type '-----END' > >debug3: key_read: missing keytype > >debug1: identity file /home/janina/.ssh/id_dsa type 2 > >ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > > >Let me repeat, this is from the same Red Hat installation that is on my > >portable which has no problems. So, I'm quite convinced something > >inbetween--very probably some kind of filtering rule on a firewall--is > >doing something to the "white space." > > > >Given that I can't make changes on intervening systems, what's the > >resolution? How do I downscale the security checking without > >compromising myself too much? > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
