Re: intermittent ssh connect error

As the kid in "The Incredibles" says: "That was totally wicked!"
Thanks much for helping me to solve what had been a long-standing and very
annoying problem. (That'll teach me to pay more attention to every config
option at the application layer before I go blaming the network, too.)

Thanks again,

Paul

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Paul Archer
Senior Unix SysAdmin
Masergy, Inc.
214-442-8827
parcher@masergy.com
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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Paul Archer wrote:
>> We've got set of servers that use AFD (http://www.dwd.de/AFD) to scp files
>> to a set of receiving servers. There are about 25 sending machines, and 12
>> receiving machines. All the servers are RHEL 4 and 5, with the senders
>> running openssh 4.3p2, and the receivers running 3.9p1.
>>
>> Most files are sent without a problem, but on a pretty regular basis, we
>> get "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host" in our
>> log files on the senders.
>> The odd/interesting thing is that while that error often shows up on a
>> connection to one machine, we also get bursts, where the error happens on
>> connections to several different machines at once. That leads us to think
>> it's an issue on the sending side, rather than the receiving side.
>
> I suspect you're hitting the MaxStartups unauthenticated connection limit.
> It default is 10, try bumping it on the servers to, say, 30 or 40.
>
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