SSH on Cygwin intermittently freezes before requesting password authentication. I would be grateful for a way to track down the error: is there a log file I can check, or a website that explains this problem? Thanks in advance for your help :)
When SSH freezes, it looks as follows:
# My command input
ssh -l $username $ip_address -vvv # '-vvv' prints verbose status messages
# Cygwin output
$version_info
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to $ip_address port 22.
... and then FREEZE
When this command is successful, these lines are the same and the next line is:
debug1: Connection established.
followed by lots of output, a password prompt, and successful connection. When SSH freezes, nothing is logged on the target machine's /var/log/auth.log until I kill the frozen SSH process on the client. Then, this line shows up:
Did not receive identification string from UNKNOWN
I'm on a Windows XP Professional laptop with cywgin version CYGWIN_NT-5.1, ssh client OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k