[ALUG] Re: Wierd routing/DNS problem

[(Ted Harding)]

On 06-Oct-06 cl at isbd.net wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
>> Are you tracerouting/pinging an IP or a hostname?
>> 
> A hostname.  E.g. I can 'traceroute shell.x-1.net' and I can 'ping
> shell.x-1.net' but I can't 'ssh shell.x-1.net'.  The ssh just hangs
> for ever.
> 
> 
>> If an IP, can you ssh to an IP address?
>> 
> No, I tried that anyway, ssh to an IP address just fails too.

It looks as though it's not a routing/DNS problem at all.

I'm wondering if it may have to do with ssh -- maybe the host
you're trying to ssh to doesn't like being accosted with ssh
(may even not have it available) and so simpy refuses to
respond, and therefore hangs. Or maybe your connection is
coming in from an IP address that it doesn't want to respond to.

Have you tried simple telnet?

Chris, I'll drop you a private mail with an IP address that
will certainly respond to telnet with a login prompt, provided
you can connect to it at all.

If you get that far, then it's not routing.

If it hangs, then you're not getting to it.

Cheers,
Ted.

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Date: 06-Oct-06                                       Time: 09:20:33
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