I would suggest trying without relying on .ssh/config, and making sure there's nothing weird in /etc/hosts.
You should see something like this: $ git clone ssh://b...@git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/lilypond.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/lilypond/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 189704 Receiving objects: 7% (20118/287391), 3.83 MiB | 716 KiB/s Aside from that I can see connections from you as lately as Feb 25 23:59:38. What bandwidth do you have? -- Sylvain On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:00:46AM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote: > > Sylvain Beucler wrote Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:03 AM > > > >This works for me. > > Yes, it seems to work for everyone else, but not for > me. > > >I issued a 'git gc' just in case. > > Tried that. No change. > > I've checked that the call set-up packet is getting > to and through my router, and I've tried using nc. > Still no luck. I've now exhausted everything in the > SshAccess page and I've run out of ideas. What else > can I try to diagnose this problem (described below)? > > Trevor > > > > >On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:44:44AM -0000, Trevor Daniels wrote: > >>Hi > >> > >>I have been able to use ssh to pull and push to lilypond.git at > >>199.232.41.69 for many months, but sometime between 8 Feb 2010 > >>and > >>16 Feb 2010 this stopped working with the attempt timing out. > >>I've > >>tried to resolve this by moving to 140.186.70.72, but I still > >>cannot > >>push or pull with ssh. Here's what happens: > >> > >>$ ssh -v sv > >>gives > >>>... > >>>debug1: Next authentication method: publickey > >>>debug1: Offering public key: /home/trevor/.ssh/id_dsa > >>>debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-dss blen 433 > >>>debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). > >>>... > >>so my key must be acceptable to savannah. > >> > >>Also > >>$ git pull git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git master > >>pulls correctly, so access to lilypond.git looks fine. > >> > >>But > >>$ git pull ssh://sv/srv/git/lilypond.git master > >>hangs, and > >>$ git pull ssh://sv/lilypond.git master > >>returns > >>>fatal: '/lilypond.git' does not appear to be a git repository > >>>fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > >> > >>My ssh config file contains > >> > >>IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa > >>Host sv > >>Hostname git.sv.gnu.org > >>User trevord > >> > >>Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? > >> > >>Trevor