Strange sshd issue

[Remillard]

Howdy,

I've got a strange little issue with sshd that I'm hoping someone will see and say a-ha! to. (Hopefully meaning having seen this before rather than anything else...)

Home LAN setup. Netgear router. I have ssh port forwarded to my gentoo box.

In my account (Window manager Openbox, Aterm terminal) I su to root. I start sshd ($> sshd). In another terminal, I ssh OUT to Host A. From Host A I ssh INTO my box, and I can log in. Everything is peachy.

I exit from root. I exit from Openbox and leave it at a login prompt (not using a *dm yet).

Elsewhere in the world (read: work) I try to ssh into my machine. It times out. I ssh into Host A. From Host A I try to ssh into my machine again (where I was previously successful). I get another failure.

Is there some reason that sshd once started would shut down all on it's own? Is there some reason that a ssh OUT and then IN would be more successful than just an OUT?

This all strikes me as very strange. The only thing I did not do was start sshd from the /etc/rc source, but I have done the rc-update add sshd default, just haven't rebooted since then.

Regards,
Remillard

[Gwyd10n]

I think it is how you started sshd which is the issue here. Now I could be wrong in how I read your post but try this.

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su -
/etc/init.d/sshd start
exit

Doing it this way insures all the proper checks are done and is also the way sshd is called upon boot.
Hope this helps.