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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:02:28 -0400
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On 09/02/2009 04:30 PM, jeffunit wrote:
> As I said, the problem is intermittent. However, once I have the problem,
> it occurs reliably. Here is some verbose output, which isn't very
> helpful...

Perhaps.  I find this interesting though.

> U:\>sftp -v -v -v jdeifik@www.weasel.com
> Connecting to www.weasel.com...
> OpenSSH_5.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8k 25 Mar 2009
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to www.weasel.com [208.97.189.139] port 22.

If I do the same thing, though I'm in bash, I get this line first:

debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config

> I have to use control-C to stop this, as it hangs after the 'connecting
> to' line.
>
> This problem is independent of where I am connecting to.

Really.  So you could debug on the server side then and see if there's
any interaction.  If not, it sounds like this is a problem with an
outgoing firewall block or other BLODA <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA>.

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