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"Failed connection to host" after Solaris upgrade

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Category: AccuTerm Knowledge Base (read only)
Forum Name: Connectivity
Forum Description: Questions about serial, modem, telnet and secure shell connections?
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Topic: "Failed connection to host" after Solaris upgrade

Posted By: acmedia
Subject: "Failed connection to host" after Solaris upgrade
Date Posted: August 20 2007 at 11:54am

We've just completed a major upgrade of our system (UnioVerse, Solaris, and a lot of other applications) and I'm finding that some users are having problems connections using the Internet Edition of AccuTerm.

Sometimes it just won't connect, and at the bottom of the window says "Failed connection to host" - but the user can close that window and try again and this time they'll get in.

There's a lot of things to check, but the first one I'm pinning my hopes on is SSH. The version of SSH on the old box is "OpenSSH_4.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7f", which was from 2005, and on the new one it's "Sun_SSH_1.1, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090704f". So there's probably a lot of changes.

Anyone noticed something similar?

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Posted By: acmedia
Date Posted: August 30 2007 at 7:28am

Changed the SSH back to the open version and it seems to be working fine.