Up until 3am on Wednesday, 26 June, I had a solid and reliable way to ssh into the UofT, talking to my computers (three of them) there; they would also provide redundant backup for my data every night. Well, without any warning, suddenly I can no longer ssh in to those computers -- all attempts to connect just time out. They are still running, I just can't get to them, and since I'm about 1000km away at the moment this is pretty rough. I talked to the JOG (Joint Operations Group) at the UofT, who had no real idea about this but pointed out that they had tightened their "security" recently because of a massive hole in RDP. I looked at the bug description and it didn't look like it had anything to do with ssh, and besides they did that a few weeks ago and everything was working for me perfectly until the day before yesterday. On the other hand, someone somewhere might have just decided it was easier to block all remote access -- though you'd think there would be a hue and cry were that so, and the JOG didn't know anything about it. The problem has been bucked over to the local UofT support group but the people on this list are far more knowledgeable, and more likely to have noticed problems, indeed to have solved them too. So I thought I'd ask. Has anyone noticed anything about ssh access to the UofT in the past few days? (The problem occurs on several different networks, accessing from computers as far away as Virginia and North Carolina, to one located in Toronto itself but not on the University network -- all have the same problem.) I've managed to come up with a workaround to be able to check/read email, but I would like to be able to ssh in to my other computers -- one runs a git server, for instance. All suggestions welcome! Thanks. -- Peter King peter.king@utoronto.ca Department of Philosophy 170 St. George Street #521 The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 CANADA http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ ========================================================================= GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42