RE: Corporate SSH for IRIX

A little more information about this problem. Connections to the server do not fail if I use the IP address in the ssh command. It only fails when I use the hostname. The client's /etc/hosts file has a correct entry for the ssh server and nsswitch is set to files then dns.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick McNeil [mailto:mcneilp@ESI.UMontreal.CA] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 4:34 PM To: Tim Leong
Cc: 'secureshell@securityfocus.com'
Subject: Re: Corporate SSH for IRIX

Hi Tim.

We are presently at 3.2.2 (educational), but we have been using ssh (from ssh.com) since around 2.4 and it works. We have about 20 SGI machines - from Challenge L to Origin 2000 as far as hardware goes and software mostly at 6.5.16.

We compile it with cc from SGI rather than gcc and use 'internal://sftp-server' for subsystem-sftp (3.x before 3.2 gave us sftp problems).

The kind of warning you have usually is seen when the target machine is up but there is nothing listening at the ssh port, so you might want to make sure the daemon is running.

If everything fails, post more information (machine, version of os, etc.).

Good luck.

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Patrick McNeil

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Tim Leong wrote:

> We recently purchased corporate SSH 3.1.0 and are now having problems
on
> some machines we can even finish the make install. But when we try to run
> ssh on the client, we get this error:
>
> warning: Connecting to <hostname> failed: TCP/IP Failure
>
> Has anyone ever compiled, installed and ran this version on an SGI
> successfully?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Tim
>

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