ssh: Connection timed out. [from school]

nixel · 05-19-2004, 12:16 PM

i used putty ssh client at school to try to connect to my computer at home but i kept getting "Connection Timed Out".

my ssh IS running. i checked as soon as i got home.
my router has the port forwarded.
there is no firewall set up on this system.
i searched around and someone suggested to use traceroute to see where it has problems but the trace completed:

Code:

Tracing route to blah.blah.nu [65.81.4.181]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  10.32.8.10
2   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  10.32.8.1
3   <10 ms   <10 ms   <10 ms  65.170.92.10
4   <10 ms    15 ms    16 ms  sl-gw12-orl-10-5-ts18.sprintlink.net [160.81.2
.245]
5   <10 ms    16 ms    31 ms  sl-bb21-orl-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.2.181]
6    93 ms   204 ms   218 ms  sl-bb22-orl-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.2.150

7    94 ms    78 ms   109 ms  sl-bb24-fw-13-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.37]
8   469 ms   328 ms   328 ms  sl-bb27-fw-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.74]
9   360 ms   156 ms   203 ms  sl-st20-dal-1-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.136]
10   266 ms   328 ms   266 ms  interconnect-eng.dallas1.level3.net [64.158.16
73]
11   218 ms   125 ms   297 ms  so-1-2-0.bbr2.dallas1.level3.net [209.244.15.1
]
12   140 ms   204 ms   265 ms  as0.mp2.miami1.level3.net [64.159.3.249]
13   313 ms   218 ms   469 ms  so-7-0-0.gar1.miami1.level3.net [4.68.112.46]
14   469 ms   516 ms   515 ms  bellsouth-te.gar1.level3.net [65.57.174.6]
15   343 ms   235 ms   625 ms  axr00mia-0-0-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.236.17]
16   609 ms   406 ms   750 ms  ixc00mia-4-0.bellsouth.net [65.83.237.9]
17   813 ms   781 ms   672 ms  209.215.49.17
18   703 ms   516 ms   719 ms  adsl-152-108-120.mia.bellsouth.net [205.152.10
120]
19   562 ms   688 ms   734 ms  adsl-XX-X-XXX.mia.bellsouth.net [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]]

Trace Complete.

the ping is unusually high. im not sure how to read this but there it is.

i also checked to see if it was the school blocking anything outgoing. i ssh'd to my friends box in another state and it worked like a charm. so the problem must lie in my system. any ideas?

my hosts.allow has 2 lines:
ALL:ALL
sshd:ALL

help. thanks in advance.

p.s. i was downloading from torrent at at least 90Kb/sec. would the use of all this bandwidth cause ssh to time out?

edit: ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 300 works. (i have ssh port assigned to 300)

david_ross · 05-19-2004, 12:20 PM

Perhaps your ISP is blocking incomming on port 22 or your chool outgoing on port 22. If you don't have a webserver running on that machine then try running ssh on port 80 and ssh to port 80 when you are in school.

nixel · 05-19-2004, 12:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by david_ross
Perhaps your ISP is blocking incomming on port 22 or your chool outgoing on port 22. If you don't have a webserver running on that machine then try running ssh on port 80 and ssh to port 80 when you are in school.

damn i didnt edit in time. i assigned ssh to port 300. loopback addr works in ssh.