[PLUG] Remote Access Issue
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Feb 14 15:08:07 UTC 2015
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Russell Senior wrote:
> Ping and ordinary traceroute is an inadequate test. ICMP ping requests are
> sometimes dropped. You should also test with tcptraceroute, which
> disguises itself as a regular TCP connection and is much less likely to be
> dropped. You can try port 80 or port 22, and that should tell you where
> the packets get lost, e.g.:
>
> $ tcptraceroute <ipaddr> <port>
>
> One possibility is that your IP address was stale and pointing at
> someone different than your server. There are many other possiblities.
Russell,
I checked the IP address and used the current one each time.
Thanks for the pointer to tcptraceroute.
Could the problem be that I no longer use port 22 for ssh? Before I left I
tested the ssh connection using the high port number on the LAN and it
worked flawlessly in both directions.
Rich
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