On 2012-05-29 11:51:25, Matty H wrote: > Hi, I've recently installed a VPS with Debian 6.0 64 bit. > > The server is fully capable to handle it, And for some reason when i > try to go through putty, The connection times out ? > > Any ideas ?
Can you ping the host? What happens if you telnet to the machine port 22? You should get a banner: allan@vent:~$ telnet localhost 22 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-4 ^] To me it sounds like you have a firewall between you and the host that drops your packages. The only thing specific to Linux is iptables, and as root you do: iptables -nL to see if there any rules are defined. sshd, by default, will do DNS lookups on the client hostname. It will sit for a while, but then I usually still get a login prompt. You disable that behavior by adding 'UseDns no' to the server you are trying to connect to in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config. /Allan -- Allan Wind Life Integrity, LLC <http://lifeintegrity.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120529124155.gj20...@lifeintegrity.com
