sshd broken by seemingly trivial network change

Erik Soderquist ErikSoderquist@gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 00:17:48 GMT 2020


On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:12 PM Bill Stewart <redacted> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:25 PM Erik Soderquist wrote:
>
> > I've had weird instances where the Windows Firewall tools lied; I
> > confirmed this by temporarily shutting down the Windows Firewall
> > entirely, then restarting the service having problems and retesting.
> > On retest, it worked fine, confirming it was the firewall causing the
> > problem.
>
> I have never experienced anything like this, on any Windows version
> for any application, after working with just about every version of
> Windows firewall since its inception, in a number of different
> organizations.
>
> In every case I thought the Windows firewall was the culprit, it turns
> out it was my own misunderstanding.

I kind of envy that... I've had a litany of weird did not make sense
quirks dealing with many aspects of Windows in my career.

-- Erik


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