On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Craig L. wrote: > I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older version > of > Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set up > so that I can access the machines from my system as localhost > (ssh -p 48828 user@localhost and ssh -p 48829 user@localhost). > Yesterday I opened Firefox on the Ubuntu box and was dragging the window to > move it, when it suddenly disappeared. In my connection terminal the message > "write failed, broken pipe" appeared, and the connection to the remote server > was gone. > > When I tried to reconnect, it took almost 60 seconds for the password prompt > to > show up. Ever since then this problem occurs from my machine to either of the > VMs. I can ssh into the host server and from there ssh into either VM, and I > get > a password prompt immediately. Today I fired up a VM on my local machine, > created the tunnel through the server to one of the remote VMs, and tried to > ssh in. The password prompt appeared immediately. > > In all cases, once I log in everything responds immediately as expected. It is > just the login prompt that is a problem. The remote machines all have > UseDNS = no set, and everything has worked fine for several months until this > problem yesterday. > > So it looks like the problem is something that has changed on my local > machine, > but I have no idea what, or where to begin. We have been having intermittent > network issues between here and the building that houses the remote server, > and > that is probably what caused the initial connection loss. But I wouldn't think > severing a connection would cause this subsequent problem. Since the server is > on a remote VM I don't think I can ssh in and then run the server in the > foreground to watch it run, can I? I have checked the logs on both ends, but > nothing looks abnormal to me. The only thing I have not tried is rebooting my > machine, but that's so windows and probably not necessary. So I've turned to > y'all for a clue as to how to troubleshoot this issue.
This appears to be a problem with an ASA firewall appliance and is being looked at by our network team and the vendor. I will be happy to provide more information if I ever get it. > > Thanks, > Craig > > > -- > 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/20140123200708.ga10...@prod1.getsouthern.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/20140129194706.ga3...@prod1.getsouthern.com
