ssh times out trying to login to machine outside the LAN
James Wilkinson
fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Mon Mar 20 02:00:40 UTC 2006
Joel Rees wrote:
> The third company is limiting ssh by IP.
and:
> Oh, I get the same results from my Mac boxes at home, so now I'm
> pretty sure the problem is not with the FC settings.
Are you sure that the third company has opened SSH for your home IP
address?
Oh yes: don't forget that there are potentially two sets of firewalls to
blame: the ones at your site and the ones at theirs. Firewalls can be
used (and are used) to block outbound traffic as well as inbound.
James.
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