On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 04:26:15PM +0200, lilit-aibolit wrote: > On 02/01/2017 03:41 PM, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > I have an OpenBSD 5.9 server at a colocation. It stopped accepting new > > connections (ping, ssh, http, whatever) yesterday night but fortunately > > I had one ssh session open from my workstation from which I can still > > access it. > > > Did you think about creation of second sshd instance > on other port and start it in debug mode?
Thank you for answering. No, it didn't occur to me since I could not reach the machine by any service or port. Tried your suggestion immediately without success. However, I got inspired and when I disabled pf (pfctl -d) I got full contact! (But -- when I turned pf back on (pfctl -e) I lost the one connection I had... Now I have to wait 48 minutes for the server to reboot. Not much more to do now except for crossing my fingers...) Thanks anyway! :-) -- Erling Westenvik