On 2/20/2013 5:55 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
From [email protected] Wed Feb 20 13:39:28 2013
> From: Fleuriot Damien <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:31:22 +0100
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have a laptop with FreeBSD -current,
> > with ip address assigned via DHCP.
> > The laptop has neither a static ip address,
> > nor a domain.
> >
> > I can ping the laptop fine, but cannot
I doubt that you can ping 172.21.220.12 from 137.222.187.241 as
172.21.220.12 is private IP address space and is not routed across the
Internet.
> > ssh into it. The sshd is running, /etc/ssh/ssd_config
> > seems fine, /etc/hosts.allow is fine.
> > However, /etc/hosts is just the default:
While on the problem machine, can you ssh to localhost? ssh to the IP
address?
yes to both
I would suspect the problem is in /etc/hosts.allow
or /etc/hosts.deny,
The first non-comment line in /etc/hosts.allow is
ALL : ALL : allow
and I don't have /etc/hosts.deny:
root@zzz:~ # ls /etc/hosts*
/etc/hosts /etc/hosts.equiv
/etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.lpd
root@zzz:~ #
or perhaps the subnet mask is incorrect.
Well.. what should it be?
I have on the problem box (ssh server):
wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1
500
ether 00:21:5c:50:68:c3
inet 172.21.220.12 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 255.255.255.255
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/54Mbps mode 11g
status: associated
ssid eduroam channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:3a:98:62:cd:a0
country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit txpower 14 bmiss 10 scanvalid 450
bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5
protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL
I'm trying to ssh from 137.222.187.241.
I wonder, perhaps it somehow built into the
Eduroam wireless, provided by the University,
that the devices connected to it cannot be
accessible. They can only initiate outgoing
connections, but all incoming connections are
somehow blocked? Given that the majority of
the devices will be unsecured MS boxes, maybe
the university thought that this is wise idea
for safety. Perhaps I can investigate this
with my IT guys.
Or I might be talking complete nonsense here, not my area at all.
It is kind of "built in" as you say. The Eduroam wireless network
appears to be a private network sitting behind a NAT gateway. Thus what
happens when you access the Internet is that your laptop sends that
request to the NAT gateway on the Eduroam network. The NAT gateway
strips off your private IP address and replaces it with a public IP
address , marks the connection in its table, and sends it on it's way.
Then when the answer comes back from the Internet, the NAT gateway
strips off the public IP address and replaces with your private IP
address, and sends it to your laptop.
While on the Eduroam network, go to http://whatismyip.com. You will see
that your IP is not 172.21.220.12. It will be a public IP address that
Eduroam uses.
Bottom line is that the only way you could ssh to your laptop from the
Internet is if you got the university to give you a public IP address
and port and then they set up NAT and port forwarding on their network
to point that public IP address to your laptop private IP address ssh port.
Since I doubt you will have much luck with that, I suspect the short
answer is "you can't ssh to your laptop from the Internet when it's
connected to your university network".
I'm sure this isn't the answer you wanted but hopefully this will save
you some frustration.
Cheers,
Drew
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