[Linux-disciples] ssh hangs

[Stephen R Laniel]

Does it ever happen to anyone else that SSH hangs up in the
middle of key exchange? This has happened to me when
connecting to bostoncoop.net, and it happened to me today
when connecting to my own machine. I had been successfully
scp'ing a bunch of files from my machine until a couple
minutes before the failed SSH. And now that I try to ssh to
my home machine a few hours after the difficulties,
everything works fine.

I ran SSH with very verbose logging, and got no good clue
about why the key exchange failed. Has anyone else seen
this? I wonder if it has something to do with my machine
needing time to recover from a very fast file transfer.
Sounds silly, but I can't think of many other reasons why
I'd get an odd intermittent error like this.

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