Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-12 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:57:46 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:

> On 12/12/2018 08:16 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:15:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> 
>>> traceroute beartooth.info traceroute -I beartooth.info traceroute -T
>>> -p 999 beartooth.info
>>>
>>> Some (or all) or those might require root, so best to just use root.
> 
> [results snipped]
> 
> All three fail after this machine:
> 13  vps5.netwisp.com (216.86.153.98)  41.450 ms  41.424 ms  41.978 ms
> Presumably, the next machine (whatever it is) is where the trouble is.
> You may need to discuss this with the technical contact for netwisp.com.

I've just sent that on to the guys at Netwisp (who, btw, have 
always been friendly and helpful at every need of mine), and referred 
them to the fact that this list is carried on Gmane as Fedora.general.

Many thanks to all for  the help so far, and please stay tuned!

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-12 Thread Joe Zeff

On 12/12/2018 08:16 AM, Beartooth wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:15:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:


traceroute beartooth.info
traceroute -I beartooth.info
traceroute -T -p 999 beartooth.info

Some (or all) or those might require root, so best to just use root.


[results snipped]

All three fail after this machine:
13  vps5.netwisp.com (216.86.153.98)  41.450 ms  41.424 ms  41.978 ms
Presumably, the next machine (whatever it is) is where the trouble is. 
You may need to discuss this with the technical contact for netwisp.com.


BTW, traceroute itself doesn't need root.  I don't know about -T, as 
I've never used it, but -I certainly does.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-12 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:15:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:

> traceroute beartooth.info 
> traceroute -I beartooth.info 
> traceroute -T -p 999 beartooth.info
> 
> Some (or all) or those might require root, so best to just use root.

[root@localhost ~]# traceroute beartooth.info
traceroute to beartooth.info (208.100.51.176), 30 hops max, 60 byte 
packets
 1  router.asus.com (192.168.50.1)  0.345 ms  0.351 ms  0.380 ms
 2  96.120.18.205 (96.120.18.205)  8.921 ms  8.927 ms  8.950 ms
 3  68.86.126.77 (68.86.126.77)  8.856 ms  8.862 ms  9.786 ms
 4  ae-18-ar02.charlvilleco.va.richmond.comcast.net (68.86.173.213)  
13.532 ms  13.525 ms  13.519 ms
 5  be-21508-cr02.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.91.53)  18.626 ms  
18.601 ms  17.308 ms
 6  be-10142-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.34)  15.974 ms  
14.561 ms  14.933 ms
 7  ash-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.149.64)  15.309 ms  15.297 ms  15.642 ms
 8  ash-bb4-link.telia.net (213.155.136.38)  42.048 ms ash-bb3-
link.telia.net (62.115.143.78)  42.345 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net 
(213.155.136.38)  45.846 ms
 9  * nyk-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.136.200)  42.341 ms  42.331 ms
10  chi-b21-link.telia.net (80.91.246.162)  42.406 ms  43.229 ms chi-b21-
link.telia.net (62.115.137.59)  41.800 ms
11  steadfast-ic-332234-chi-b21.c.telia.net (213.248.67.149)  41.714 ms  
42.734 ms  42.725 ms
12  te9-1.dist02.chi01.steadfast.net (208.100.32.35)  42.285 ms  41.651 
ms  42.436 ms
13  vps5.netwisp.com (216.86.153.98)  41.450 ms  41.424 ms  41.978 ms
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *
[root@localhost ~]# traceroute -I beartooth.info
traceroute to beartooth.info (208.100.51.176), 30 hops max, 60 byte 
packets
 1  router.asus.com (192.168.50.1)  0.237 ms  0.266 ms  0.307 ms
 2  96.120.18.205 (96.120.18.205)  9.846 ms  9.917 ms  9.933 ms
 3  68.86.126.77 (68.86.126.77)  9.821 ms  9.855 ms  9.872 ms
 4  ae-18-ar02.charlvilleco.va.richmond.comcast.net (68.86.173.213)  
14.087 ms  14.102 ms  14.116 ms
 5  be-21508-cr02.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.91.53)  17.025 ms  
17.043 ms  17.058 ms
 6  be-10142-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.34)  16.529 ms  
15.076 ms  15.073 ms
 7  ash-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.149.64)  15.498 ms  15.429 ms  15.789 ms
 8  ash-bb4-link.telia.net (213.155.136.38)  42.239 ms  42.662 ms  42.656 
ms
 9  nyk-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.136.200)  42.064 ms  42.070 ms  42.071 
ms
10  chi-b21-link.telia.net (62.115.137.59)  42.314 ms  42.347 ms  42.718 
ms
11  steadfast-ic-332234-chi-b21.c.telia.net (213.248.67.149)  42.626 ms  
42.627 ms  42.689 ms
12  te9-1.dist02.chi01.steadfast.net (208.100.32.35)  42.721 ms  42.944 
ms  42.966 ms
13  vps5.netwisp.com (216.86.153.98)  42.667 ms  42.055 ms  42.456 ms
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *
[root@localhost ~]# traceroute -T -p 999 beartooth.info
traceroute to beartooth.info (208.100.51.176), 30 hops max, 60 byte 
packets
 1  router.asus.com (192.168.50.1)  0.301 ms  0.311 ms  0.349 ms
 2  96.120.18.205 (96.120.18.205)  9.202 ms  9.225 ms  9.230 ms
 3  68.86.126.77 (68.86.126.77)  9.098 ms  9.103 ms  9.111 ms
 4  ae-18-ar02.charlvilleco.va.richmond.comcast.net (68.86.173.213)  
12.979 ms  12.984 ms  14.122 ms
 5  be-21508-cr02.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.91.53)  17.858 ms  
17.024 ms  17.849 ms
 6  be-10142-pe01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.34)  16.949 ms  
15.445 ms  15.346 ms
 7  ash-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.149.64)  15.401 ms  14.593 ms  14.946 ms
 8  ash-bb3-link.telia.net (80.91.248.156)  42.291 ms ash-bb3-
link.telia.net (62.115.143.78)  42.257 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net 
(213.155.136.38)  42.109 ms
 9  nyk-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.141.245)  21.781 ms nyk-bb4-
link.telia.net (62.115.136.200)  42.064 ms  42.046 ms
10  chi-b21-link.telia.net (62.115.137.59)  41.892 ms chi-b21-
link.telia.net (80.91.246.162)  43.207 ms  44.869 ms
11  steadfast-ic-332234-chi-b21.c.telia.net (213.248.67.149)  44.048 ms  
44.008 ms  43.130 ms
12  te9-1.dist02.chi01.steadfast.net (208.100.32.35)  43.129 ms  43.119 
ms  44.260 ms
13  vps5.netwisp.com (216.86.153.98)  44.261 ms  42.394 ms  43.586 ms
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *
[root@localhost ~]# 

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/12/18 9:44 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I will check again in a few hours, but I think the defense may drop after a 
> time.

Yep, 1 hour later and "traceroute -n -T -p 999 beartooth.info" reaches 
208.100.51.176.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 11 December 2018, Joe Zeff sent:
> If you can't ping someplace, traceroute will show you where the
> problem is, because it will stop getting responses.

Though you still have to think about it (it's only part of a
diagnosis).  That failure just means the device doesn't respond to
that type of probing.  There's plenty of otherwise fully functional
things that ignore pings and other probing.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/12/18 7:15 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> traceroute beartooth.info
> traceroute -I beartooth.info
> traceroute -T -p 999 beartooth.info
>
> Some (or all) or those might require root, so best to just use root.

I was able to get the failure condition again. 

This is from a working system

[root@acer egreshko]# traceroute -n -T -p 999 beartooth.info
traceroute to beartooth.info (208.100.51.176), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  211.75.128.254  6.136 ms  6.076 ms  6.208 ms
 2  168.95.229.46  6.158 ms  6.078 ms  6.025 ms
 3  220.128.27.94  6.525 ms  6.485 ms  6.437 ms
 4  220.128.7.69  6.788 ms 220.128.14.93  6.325 ms 220.128.7.69  6.675 ms
 5  220.128.30.253  14.755 ms  14.658 ms 220.128.6.85  6.458 ms
 6  211.72.108.81  154.862 ms  154.813 ms 211.72.108.49  144.515 ms
 7  202.39.83.45  152.368 ms 202.39.83.77  152.717 ms  152.691 ms
 8  4.28.172.121  166.896 ms 4.28.172.129  144.516 ms  142.168 ms
 9  * * *
10  4.71.248.202  195.003 ms  205.495 ms  193.438 ms
11  208.100.32.35  301.100 ms  205.363 ms  215.205 ms
12  216.86.153.98  205.625 ms  215.884 ms  215.802 ms
13  208.100.51.176  203.412 ms  215.869 ms  189.607 ms

[root@acer egreshko]# host 208.100.51.176
176.51.100.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer artemis.beartooth.info.

And this is from a failing one...

[root@meimei ~]# traceroute -n -T -p 999 beartooth.info
traceroute to beartooth.info (208.100.51.176), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1  1.198 ms  0.321 ms  0.454 ms
 2  211.75.128.254  8.701 ms  8.184 ms  9.475 ms
 3  168.95.229.46  9.358 ms  10.435 ms  7.877 ms
 4  220.128.27.94  10.369 ms  9.341 ms  10.332 ms
 5  220.128.14.93  8.145 ms  8.735 ms  9.284 ms
 6  220.128.6.81  10.359 ms *  9.139 ms
 7  211.72.108.5  153.147 ms 211.72.108.49  148.277 ms 211.72.108.5  153.197 ms
 8  202.39.83.45  141.591 ms  144.909 ms 202.39.83.77  169.003 ms
 9  4.28.172.121  148.228 ms  144.076 ms 4.28.172.129  154.525 ms
10  * * *
11  4.71.248.202  216.858 ms  202.435 ms  216.704 ms
12  208.100.32.35  216.585 ms  202.665 ms  216.622 ms
13  216.86.153.98  216.773 ms  216.103 ms  216.158 ms
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * * *
23  * * *
24  * * *
25  * * *
26  * * *
27  * * *
28  * * *
29  * * *
30  * * *


FWIW, I think I triggered the "defensive" response by doing a port scan on 
208.100.51.176.

I will check again in a few hours, but I think the defense may drop after a 
time.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/11/18 2:36 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/12/18 6:12 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 12/11/18 1:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>
>>> I get the feeling the folks at Netwisp, Inc. are doing something to 
>>> "prevent" hacking.
>> Yup. Tried three times from our ASN from two different machines. All
>> the test machines are behind a firewall (Cisco 65xx) and only one has
>> a reverse DNS record.
> 
> Not quite understanding what you're saying.
> 
> The 2 different machines are in the ASN and work all the time?  Are they 
> pingable?

Both are part of our public /22 address space and have public IPs. We do
our own DNS and one of the machines I used has a PTR record. The other
one doesn't (it has a public IP, but no PTR record as it's part of a
load-balanced cluster and the PTR record for the cluster points at the
VIP--not the RIP).

> All of my assigned IP addresses (even IPV6) have PTR records courtesy of my 
> ISP.  In my
> case it just seems to be a case of the IP that the beartooth side sees as the 
> incoming
> connection being pingable or not.
> 
> [Real-Time Update]
> 
> Decided to connect again from my system(s) behind my router and it now works 
> all time time!
> 
> Odd, very odd.

Yup. It may be that Netwisp is doing something weird.
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Joe Zeff

On 12/11/2018 04:04 PM, Beartooth wrote:

Hoo, boy! I haven't so much as heard of traceroute in ten or
fifteen years, and never did grep its uses. I can look it up, of course,
but it might be worth your while to just tell me a command (and to use it
as root if that should be desirable).


For all practical purposes, traceroute pings each hop along the way to 
the destination three times.  (That's not really how it does it, but 
don't worry about it.)  If you can't ping someplace, traceroute will 
show you where the problem is, because it will stop getting responses. 
Also, if you've got a slow connection, you can tell where the issue is 
because the return times will suddenly jump.  The only time you need 
root for it is for traceroute -I, because that uses ICMP ECHO for 
probes, but can get response where nothing else does.  Back when I was 
doing tech support for an ISP, we used it all the time on calls to find 
out why connections were slow, and usually to show the caller that it 
was outside our network.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb

On 12/11/18 3:04 PM, Beartooth wrote:

Hoo, boy! I haven't so much as heard of traceroute in ten or
fifteen years, and never did grep its uses. I can look it up, of course,
but it might be worth your while to just tell me a command (and to use it
as root if that should be desirable).


traceroute beartooth.info
traceroute -I beartooth.info
traceroute -T -p 999 beartooth.info

Some (or all) or those might require root, so best to just use root.
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:23:59 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:

> On 12/11/18 1:54 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:53:03 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> I can connect to that port fine.  Do you have something like fail2ban
>>> on the server that would block your connection?  Can you try
>>> connecting from another location?
>> 
>>  I thought I had fail2ban, but rpm -q says not.
>> 
>>  I tried just now on my little netbook, and got what looks to me
>> to be the same:
> 
> But you're still trying from the same location, right?  

Yes: it's a different machine in the next room, using my one 
access route.

> But as others
> have said, it depends on where you try from whether or not it works.  So
> it sounds like a networking issue somewhere.  It could be the server,
> the hosting provider, or your internet provider.  What happens if you
> try using traceroute?

Hoo, boy! I haven't so much as heard of traceroute in ten or 
fifteen years, and never did grep its uses. I can look it up, of course, 
but it might be worth your while to just tell me a command (and to use it 
as root if that should be desirable). 

 
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/12/18 6:12 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/11/18 1:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>
>> I get the feeling the folks at Netwisp, Inc. are doing something to 
>> "prevent" hacking.
> Yup. Tried three times from our ASN from two different machines. All
> the test machines are behind a firewall (Cisco 65xx) and only one has
> a reverse DNS record.

Not quite understanding what you're saying.

The 2 different machines are in the ASN and work all the time?  Are they 
pingable?

All of my assigned IP addresses (even IPV6) have PTR records courtesy of my 
ISP.  In my
case it just seems to be a case of the IP that the beartooth side sees as the 
incoming
connection being pingable or not.

[Real-Time Update]

Decided to connect again from my system(s) behind my router and it now works 
all time time!

Odd, very odd.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb

On 12/11/18 1:54 PM, Beartooth wrote:

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:53:03 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:

I can connect to that port fine.  Do you have something like fail2ban on
the server that would block your connection?  Can you try connecting
from another location?


I thought I had fail2ban, but rpm -q says not.

I tried just now on my little netbook, and got what looks to me
to be the same:


But you're still trying from the same location, right?  But as others 
have said, it depends on where you try from whether or not it works.  So 
it sounds like a networking issue somewhere.  It could be the server, 
the hosting provider, or your internet provider.  What happens if you 
try using traceroute?

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/11/18 1:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/12/18 5:25 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> I just did the same. From a Spectrum IP here in Orange County, CA,
>> the system doesn't respond (and Spectrum is a Comcast company).
>>
>> From a monitoring system in our ASN (a /22 network), it works peachy:
> 
> Interesting
> 
> Could you try it a second time?  I ask since I tried from Taiwan.  The first 
> attempt..
> 
> [egreshko@meimei etc]$ ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
> OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 FIPS  11 Sep 2018
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf
> debug1: Reading configuration data 
> /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config
> debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf line 8: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
> debug1: Connection established.
> .
> .
> .
> The authenticity of host '[beartooth.info]:999 ([208.100.51.176]:999)' can't 
> be established.
> ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:KC2aZ8T2NiqBIcjVVrhwXfPgHunj2BtECvty3QGEzxc.
> Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no
> 
> The second time...
> 
> [egreshko@meimei etc]$ ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
> OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 FIPS  11 Sep 2018
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf
> debug1: Reading configuration data 
> /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config
> debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf line 8: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
> ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out
> 
> This happens with a system that is behind a router and the router is not 
> pingable.
> 
> If I try from another host that is directly connected to the Internet and is 
> pingable then
> connections work all the time.
> 
> I get the feeling the folks at Netwisp, Inc. are doing something to "prevent" 
> hacking.

Yup. Tried three times from our ASN from two different machines. All
the test machines are behind a firewall (Cisco 65xx) and only one has
a reverse DNS record.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:53:03 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:

> On 12/11/18 12:11 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999 debug1: Connecting to
>> beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
>> debug1: connect to address 208.100.51.176 port 999: Connection timed
>> out ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out
> 
> I can connect to that port fine.  Do you have something like fail2ban on
> the server that would block your connection?  Can you try connecting
> from another location?

I thought I had fail2ban, but rpm -q says not.

I tried just now on my little netbook, and got what looks to me 
to be the same:

btth@Redback ~]$ ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 FIPS 11 Sep 2018
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/
openssh.config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf line 8: Applying options for 
*
debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
debug1: connect to address 208.100.51.176 port 999: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out
[btth@Redback ~]$

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/12/18 5:25 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> I just did the same. From a Spectrum IP here in Orange County, CA,
> the system doesn't respond (and Spectrum is a Comcast company).
>
> From a monitoring system in our ASN (a /22 network), it works peachy:

Interesting

Could you try it a second time?  I ask since I tried from Taiwan.  The first 
attempt..

[egreshko@meimei etc]$ ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 FIPS  11 Sep 2018
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf line 8: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
debug1: Connection established.
.
.
.
The authenticity of host '[beartooth.info]:999 ([208.100.51.176]:999)' can't be 
established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:KC2aZ8T2NiqBIcjVVrhwXfPgHunj2BtECvty3QGEzxc.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no

The second time...

[egreshko@meimei etc]$ ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 FIPS  11 Sep 2018
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/openssh.config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf line 8: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out

This happens with a system that is behind a router and the router is not 
pingable.

If I try from another host that is directly connected to the Internet and is 
pingable then
connections work all the time.

I get the feeling the folks at Netwisp, Inc. are doing something to "prevent" 
hacking.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/11/18 12:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 12/11/18 12:11 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
>> debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
>> debug1: connect to address 208.100.51.176 port 999: Connection timed out
>> ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out
> 
> I can connect to that port fine.  Do you have something like fail2ban on
> the server that would block your connection?  Can you try connecting
> from another location?

I just did the same. From a Spectrum IP here in Orange County, CA,
the system doesn't respond (and Spectrum is a Comcast company).

From a monitoring system in our ASN (a /22 network), it works peachy:

 CUT HERE -
# ssh -v -p 999 208.100.51.176
OpenSSH_5.3p1, OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 208.100.51.176 [208.100.51.176] port 999.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: permanently_set_uid: 0/0
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/identity type -1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
debug1: identity file /root/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_7.4
debug1: match: OpenSSH_7.4 pat OpenSSH*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-sha1 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<2048<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host '[208.100.51.176]:999' is known and matches the RSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /root/.ssh/known_hosts:40
debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue:
publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-keyex
debug1: No valid Key exchange context
debug1: Next authentication method: gssapi-with-mic
debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_0' not found

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_0' not found

debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information


debug1: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
Credentials cache file '/tmp/krb5cc_0' not found

debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/identity
debug1: Offering public key: /root/.ssh/id_rsa
debug1: Authentications that can continue:
publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password
debug1: Trying private key: /root/.ssh/id_dsa
debug1: Next authentication method: password
root@208.100.51.176's password:
 CUT HERE -

So, it could be that Comcast/Spectrum has blacklisted that IP or its
/24 block (appears to be owned by Netwisp, Inc.). Or that system is
doing something like reverse DNS lookups that aren't resolving and thus
blocking things.

Dunno which. Looks like an argument you need to have with Comcast to
see if they're blacklisting it and if so, why?
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb

On 12/11/18 12:11 PM, Beartooth wrote:

ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
debug1: connect to address 208.100.51.176 port 999: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out


I can connect to that port fine.  Do you have something like fail2ban on 
the server that would block your connection?  Can you try connecting 
from another location?

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:59:20 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:

> On 12/11/18 11:04 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>>  We've been unable for days to connect to our email at my domain;
>> when we try our usual ssh  -p , we
>> get nothing but eventually "Connection timed out" -- even after having
>> left it all night.
> 
> How are you using ssh to get your email?

I use it to get to the CLI at my host, sign in, command Alpine, 
give the password again, and then run Alpine -- which I've been using for 
nearer thirty years than twenty.

> What port are you using?

999
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:53:03 -0700, stan wrote:

> I think I understand better what is happening.  Whether I can help I
> don't know.  A summary:
> 
> You have no problem with your ISP (Comcast).  Your problem is with the
> third party that handles your private domain for email.  When you try to
> connect to that site via ssh, the connection attempts time out.

Yes, exactly.

> This sounds like an ssh configuration issue, not a firewall issue.  I'm
> not very familiar with ssh since I don't use it a lot, but here goes.
> 
> Are you using key based login rather than password login?

No; I don't even know what the former is.

> If you are, is it possible the keys are incorrect with f29, and you need
> to generate new keys?
> 
> Have you tried using the -v option to ssh, the verbose option for
> debugging so you can see what is happening with the connection process?

ssh -v bearto...@beartooth.info -p 999
OpenSSH_7.9p1, OpenSSL 1.1.1 FIPS  11 Sep 2018
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/
openssh.config
debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/05-redhat.conf line 8: Applying options for 
*
debug1: Connecting to beartooth.info [208.100.51.176] port 999.
debug1: connect to address 208.100.51.176 port 999: Connection timed out
ssh: connect to host beartooth.info port 999: Connection timed out
[btth@localhost ~]$ 

 
> Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about ssh will immediately point to
> the problem for you.

I hope the above helps someone. I've been using ssh ever since 
telnet became unsafe, and never thought to look at options, fool that I 
am. It has just worked for about twenty years.
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/11/18 11:04 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:27:32 -0700, stan wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 19:00:25 + (UTC)
>> I Beartooth  wrote:
>>
>>> I do some of my email and all of my Gmane activity (including
>>> this list) at the address above, from my local access provider,
>>> Comcast; but I do most of my email (and my wife does all of hers) at my
>>> own domain, to which we connect by ssh.
> 
>>> Recently we've been moving machines about physically, from
>>> floor to floor and connection to connection. We've also been getting
>>> lots of timeouts. When I asked my domain host about it, he told me it
>>> was my own firewall cutting us off.  It blocks connections out from our
>>> IP address if they fail more than it likes. 
> 
>   (If he said what caused the initial, triggering failure to 
> connect, I missed it.)
>  
>> This doesn't make sense to me, unless you have restrictive firewalls on
>> your local net in front of the web access.  Moving a machine should be
>> irrelevant.  Fedora's default setting for the firewall is to let nothing
>> initiate connections to the system except ssh, and to let anything on
>> the system that wants to reach the net do so. If you haven't changed it
>> on any of your machines, that is what should be happening.
> 
>   It makes no sense to me either, and I don't even know how to 
> access the firewall; it pretty well has to be whatever F29 defaults to.
>  
>> Are you maybe using wireless, and getting problematic connections with
>> lower (or no) speeds in different locations?
> 
>   My current router is an ASUS AC-1200, which does both, and we use 
> both. After fifteen years in this house, and half a dozen routers, we 
> have a fair idea which locations a wireless access point can reach. We 
> stick to those when (rarely) we use Wi-Fi. We keep it available mainly 
> for house guests.
>  
>>> So, I THINK, I ought to enlarge  a/o lubricate the opening in
>>> the firewall that lets US out, but not make it any easier than I can
>>> help for supposed malware to get out. Does that make sense?
>>>
>>> If so, where do I go (i.e., what file do I open), and what
>>> changes do I make, to accomplish that?
>>  
>> I don't think this should be necessary if you are using default Fedora
>> settings.  Use the program firewall-config (man firewall-config) to look
>> at what the firewall settings are on each system.  Mine is set to public
>> (meaning roughly that I am exposed to the public web, and thus don't
>> trust the network I'm on, so play safe).
>>
>> I used to have all kinds of elaborate rules in my iptables configuration
>> (which is what the firewall uses under the covers), but eventually just
>> caved and let the firewalld configuration set it.
> 
> We've been unable for days to connect to our email at my domain; 
> when we try our usual ssh  -p , we get 
> nothing but eventually "Connection timed out" -- even after having left 
> it all night.
> 
>  From my Comcast account, I emailed support at my host (two guys in 
> a suburb of Chicago afaict). The answer made no sense to me, but
> I recited it as best I could to this list-- and meseems it made no sense 
> here, either.
> 
>  According to them, my own firewall cuts us (i.e., our whole IP) off 
> when we try too many times too soon to connect. (We do that, of course, 
> by hitting up arrow and Enter.)
> 
>   Am I making any more sense yet?

Well, yeah, but I really, REALLY doubt it's your router. I've used that
model of router myself. While I was never a big fan of its wifi
abilities (kinda wimpy for my house), wired connections through it never
failed. Unless you took a power hit, did a firmware update or some other
action to your router, I doubt it's your problem. Those routers do have
a log in them. Check it to see if you see anything like what they're
claiming.

A far more likely candidate is that the cable modem got an update from
Comcast (they do that on occasion and without telling you) and it's
screwed up. I had a similar issue with Spectrum (a Comcast company)
here. By use of traceroutes and tcpdumps, I proved that their modem was
the problem. They reflashed my cable modem to the previous firmware it
had (and I had a record of what it was) and suddenly everything was
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb

On 12/11/18 11:04 AM, Beartooth wrote:

 We've been unable for days to connect to our email at my domain;
when we try our usual ssh  -p , we get
nothing but eventually "Connection timed out" -- even after having left
it all night.


How are you using ssh to get your email?
What port are you using?
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread stan
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:04:17 + (UTC)
Beartooth  wrote:

>  According to them, my own firewall cuts us (i.e., our whole IP)
> off when we try too many times too soon to connect. (We do that, of
> course, by hitting up arrow and Enter.)
> 
>   Am I making any more sense yet?

I think I understand better what is happening.  Whether I can help I
don't know.  A summary:

You have no problem with your ISP (Comcast).  Your problem is with the
third party that handles your private domain for email.  When you try
to connect to that site via ssh, the connection attempts time out.

This sounds like an ssh configuration issue, not a firewall issue.  I'm
not very familiar with ssh since I don't use it a lot, but here goes.

Are you using key based login rather than password login?

If you are, is it possible the keys are incorrect with f29, and you
need to generate new keys?

Have you tried using the -v option to ssh, the verbose option for
debugging so you can see what is happening with the connection process?

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about ssh will immediately point to
the problem for you.
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-11 Thread Beartooth
On Sun, 09 Dec 2018 15:27:32 -0700, stan wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 19:00:25 + (UTC)
> I Beartooth  wrote:
> 
>>  I do some of my email and all of my Gmane activity (including
>> this list) at the address above, from my local access provider,
>> Comcast; but I do most of my email (and my wife does all of hers) at my
>> own domain, to which we connect by ssh.

>>  Recently we've been moving machines about physically, from
>> floor to floor and connection to connection. We've also been getting
>> lots of timeouts. When I asked my domain host about it, he told me it
>> was my own firewall cutting us off.  It blocks connections out from our
>> IP address if they fail more than it likes. 

(If he said what caused the initial, triggering failure to 
connect, I missed it.)
 
> This doesn't make sense to me, unless you have restrictive firewalls on
> your local net in front of the web access.  Moving a machine should be
> irrelevant.  Fedora's default setting for the firewall is to let nothing
> initiate connections to the system except ssh, and to let anything on
> the system that wants to reach the net do so. If you haven't changed it
> on any of your machines, that is what should be happening.

It makes no sense to me either, and I don't even know how to 
access the firewall; it pretty well has to be whatever F29 defaults to.
 
> Are you maybe using wireless, and getting problematic connections with
> lower (or no) speeds in different locations?

My current router is an ASUS AC-1200, which does both, and we use 
both. After fifteen years in this house, and half a dozen routers, we 
have a fair idea which locations a wireless access point can reach. We 
stick to those when (rarely) we use Wi-Fi. We keep it available mainly 
for house guests.
 
>>  So, I THINK, I ought to enlarge  a/o lubricate the opening in
>> the firewall that lets US out, but not make it any easier than I can
>> help for supposed malware to get out. Does that make sense?
>> 
>>  If so, where do I go (i.e., what file do I open), and what
>> changes do I make, to accomplish that?
>  
> I don't think this should be necessary if you are using default Fedora
> settings.  Use the program firewall-config (man firewall-config) to look
> at what the firewall settings are on each system.  Mine is set to public
> (meaning roughly that I am exposed to the public web, and thus don't
> trust the network I'm on, so play safe).
> 
> I used to have all kinds of elaborate rules in my iptables configuration
> (which is what the firewall uses under the covers), but eventually just
> caved and let the firewalld configuration set it.

We've been unable for days to connect to our email at my domain; 
when we try our usual ssh  -p , we get 
nothing but eventually "Connection timed out" -- even after having left 
it all night.

 From my Comcast account, I emailed support at my host (two guys in 
a suburb of Chicago afaict). The answer made no sense to me, but
I recited it as best I could to this list-- and meseems it made no sense 
here, either.

 According to them, my own firewall cuts us (i.e., our whole IP) off 
when we try too many times too soon to connect. (We do that, of course, 
by hitting up arrow and Enter.)

Am I making any more sense yet?
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-09 Thread stan
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 19:00:25 + (UTC)
Beartooth  wrote:

>   I do some of my email and all of my Gmane activity (including 
> this list) at the address above, from my local access provider,
> Comcast; but I do most of my email (and my wife does all of hers) at
> my own domain, to which we connect by ssh.

I pay an email service to host my domain, but as Joe does, I could just
as easily use the mail hosts at my domain service.  Easier, in fact,
since that is their default.

>   Recently we've been moving machines about physically, from
> floor to floor and connection to connection. We've also been getting
> lots of timeouts. When I asked my domain host about it, he told me it
> was my own firewall cutting us off.  It blocks connections out from
> our IP address if they fail more than it likes.

This doesn't make sense to me, unless you have restrictive firewalls
on your local net in front of the web access.  Moving a machine
should be irrelevant.  Fedora's default setting for the firewall is to
let nothing initiate connections to the system except ssh, and to let
anything on the system that wants to reach the net do so. If you
haven't changed it on any of your machines, that is what should be
happening.

Are you maybe using wireless, and getting problematic connections with
lower (or no) speeds in different locations?

>   So, I THINK, I ought to enlarge  a/o lubricate the opening in
> the firewall that lets US out, but not make it any easier than I can
> help for supposed malware to get out. Does that make sense?
> 
>   If so, where do I go (i.e., what file do I open), and what 
> changes do I make, to accomplish that?
 
I don't think this should be necessary if you are using default Fedora
settings.  Use the program firewall-config (man firewall-config) to look
at what the firewall settings are on each system.  Mine is set to public
(meaning roughly that I am exposed to the public web, and thus don't
trust the network I'm on, so play safe).

I used to have all kinds of elaborate rules in my iptables
configuration (which is what the firewall uses under the covers), but
eventually just caved and let the firewalld configuration set it.
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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-09 Thread Samuel Sieb

On 12/9/18 11:00 AM, Beartooth wrote:

Recently we've been moving machines about physically, from floor
to floor and connection to connection. We've also been getting lots of
timeouts. When I asked my domain host about it, he told me it was my own
firewall cutting us off.  It blocks connections out from our IP address
if they fail more than it likes.


This doesn't really make sense.  Usually personal/home firewalls are 
configured to allow any connections outgoing.  And I don't know of any 
firewall that blocks an IP for failed connections.  I'm not even sure 
how the firewall would know they were failing.


What is your firewall or what are you using as the internet gateway device?
What connections are timing out?
Are you sure your internal network is connected correctly?  If you've 
been moving lots of things around, it's possible that something got 
miswired.

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Re: F29 Wail at the Firewall (long; sorry!)

2018-12-09 Thread Joe Zeff

On 12/09/2018 12:00 PM, Beartooth wrote:

I do some of my email and all of my Gmane activity (including
this list) at the address above, from my local access provider, Comcast;
but I do most of my email (and my wife does all of hers) at my own
domain, to which we connect by ssh.


My main email address is also at my own domain, but I find it easiest 
simply to specify their servers in my email client.  One advantage of 
this is that when I moved from southern California to southern Colorado 
recently, I didn't have to change my settings.

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