[Tuxaloosa] ssh problems

[E.H.]

putty exits after ~10 seconds with "Network error: Connection has timed out"
i tried killing my firewall and still cannot connect.
ill boot into ubuntu and see how that goes.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:54 -0500
> "E.H." <leprkhn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > update:
> > i can log in using putty on my laptop running windows (xp - the
> > workstation is running vista ::ducks::).
> > SO...
> > why one machine works and not the other?
> > both are wireless (not that that should matter)
>
>
> Hrm, are you sure that it doesn't work, or is there perhaps
> just a *long* delay?  (wait for a while to be sure)
>
> If it's just a delay, then sshd is trying to do a reverse
> lookup on the ip address, which is failing, so it's timing
> out before the connection proceeds.
>
> If that's what it is, then we'll look into fixing that.
>
> -RW
>
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