[KLUG Members] weird ssh behavior...

[Joe Baker]

> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 07:13:16 -0400
> From: Mark Bystry <mabystry at verizon.net>
> Subject: [KLUG Members] weird ssh behavior...
> To: KLUG <members at kalamazoolinux.org>
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> i have been having a problem with ssh ever since i put suse 10.1 on my home system. from my windows 
> xp machine at work i can log into my suse 10.1 server at home via ssh...EXCEPT...when i "ls" to see 
> the directory contents, i see 3-4 things listed in putty and then it hangs at the command line. i 
> have about 20 folders and files in my /home directory.
> 
> why could this be happening? since i have dsl i use dyndns.org as my dns. i have also tried winscp 
> and i get so far as logging in and it hangs at "Reading Remote Directory". it's almost as if i do 
> not have permission to see my /home/user contents or something.
> 
> mark
> suse 10.1
> kde 3.5.1

Greetings from across the lake.  I have to wonder about either the 
server you are connecting to or the machine from which you are 
initiating the connection.  Maybe there is another machine on the 
network which has acquired the same ip address as one of the machines.
I've seen a similar symptom happen once before when I had a DHCP server 
mis-configured to give away the server's IP address to a client.  I 
thought somebody was hijacking my SSH session.  Needless to say it was 
exciting, I blushed like crazy afterwards.

Good Luck!
-Joe Baker
Burlington, Wisconsin
http://www.burlingtonlinux.org