Goofy ssh problem.

[Patastrophe]

We recently changed a server from Debian to Gentoo at our school. This server is a little side project of mine and a few friends. It basically serves as a ssh/web/email server. Before, everything worked perfectly fine with Debian, however now when I try to seh into the newly installed Gentoo box it just locks up. What's interesting is that I'm off campus, and people on-campus have no trouble at all. I've checked with the IT administration here, they say that there is no restriction that would inhibit ssh communication. Moreover, I called my ISP and they also say there is no problem with using ssh on their networks. What is interesting, is I can ssh to other boxes just fine from here. And it's possible to ssh out of the school network just fine. All ssh does is hang when I enter my password. It gets a little further when you use ssh -c blowfish hostname, because it is actuallly able to give me a shell. I can type a few characters, then it just locks up again. When we force it to use Protocol 1, it lasts a little bit longer before it dies, and just a tad longer if we force the arcfour cipher. Has anybody out there experienced any similar difficulty with ssh? I really need to access this server, because I'm one of the only persons working on this that knows a thing about Gentoo, and everybody else is used to Debian.

[georwell]

Run ssh in verbose or debug mode. How far does it get? You can also try to ssh to a server that works and then ssh from there. What does that do?

[Patastrophe]

It seems that other ssh servers work fine from my computer here. But here's what it says when we run sshd -vv, or debug or whatever. This is what my friend tells me what it says when he runs it.


This is what happens when I log in.