Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie

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Author: Peter Andrijeczko
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] confused ssh newbie
Mike

It's definitely not a BT Home Hub 2 is it? Those are the exact symptoms of
what I get with the known bug I mentioned earlier.

It might also be worth mentioning that BT Home Hubs are made by Thomson,
even though I suspect that BT have their own specific firmware for it.

Regards

Peter

On 22 June 2011 17:18, Mike Burrows <testermike@???> wrote:

>
> However, when i change the port to 2222 (changing the router of course)
>>> and repeat using
>>>
>>> ssh -p 2222 testermike@???
>>>
>>> I get an error that the connection was reset by peer and I cannot ssh in.
>>>
>>> What am I not doing please?
>>>
>> If you haven't solved it yet, try running the ssh client with -v. If
>> that doesn't help, try running the sshd in the foreground with -d.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> No not solved yet. What is confusing me is I can log in perfectly well
> using port 22 but when I do the following:
>
> - change the port to listen on in sshd_config to some other random port
> number ;-)
> - open port forwarding in the router for that port, to the server running
> the ssh daemon
> - use the shell script mentioned before i get this error:
>
> nodename nor servname provided, or not known
>
> what else needs changing to allow the use of a non-standard port?
>
>
> TIA
> Mike
>
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