Edward Marczak wrote:
> 
> On 2/14/02 7:59 AM, "Janyne Kizer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys
> forming the message:
> 
> > The thing is, I have four servers that are set up exactly the same way
> > (copied from tape) and three of them work fine.  This one does not.  I
> > have confirmed that the files in /etc/ssh are exactly the same size and
> > date.  I thought that was were the configuration info for SSH was stored
> > but maybe not?
> 
> Red Hat's rpm version stores it there, with sshd_config being fairly
> important...If you compile from tarball, the default would place those files
> at /usr/local/etc/ssh*

Right.  I did a locate on sshd_config and there is only one copy and it
is located in /etc/ssh

> > The other thing that we have found (may be related) is that we cannot
> > ping this server from our subnet but we can ping the other three.  The
> > firewall files are the same (well, local subnet numbers are differnt but
> > essentially they are the same) and iptables -L yields similar results
> > (the same except for one subnet number and the server's ip).  From the
> > troublesome server:
> 
> I'm guessing you found a clue.  Does this box provide any other services?
> If so, can you reach those services (mail, DNS, whatever)?  Any other
> firewalls that may be causing a problem?  Since you do get to the ssh
> service, I'd almost rule out a firewall issue, but I've seen stranger
> things.

tftp/xdmcp to diskless xterminals and that works fine.  The main problem
is that the ssh on this box is quite flakey and, perhaps related, is the
ping issue.


-- 

Janyne Kizer
CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5
Systems Programmer Administrator I
NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Extension and Administrative Technology Services
Phone: (919) 515-3609



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