Re: intermittent sshd connection problem in Linux

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 02/27/04

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    In article <f698f49c.0402261446.62e3201b@posting.google.com>,
    LazyAnt <soporte_altex@hotmail.com> wrote:
    >I'm running sshd (OpenSSH_3.5p1) on a Red Hat Linux 9 server (kernel
    >2.4.20-8smp) and sometimes the users or myself cannot connect through
    >ssh.
    >
    >The error I get is "connection refused by the server".
    >
    >It's an intermittent problem and I cannot reproduce it.
    [snip]

    Try bumping MaxStartups in sshd_config:

     MaxStartups
           Specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated con-
           nections to the sshd daemon. Additional connections will be
           dropped until authentication succeeds or the LoginGraceTime
           expires for a connection. The default is 10.

    Another posibility: does the host's name resolve to more than one IP
    address? 

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