[giancarlo]

I have never been able to successfully SSH into my phone. I've used FUGU, CYBERDUCK and every other program listed on the wiki guides. Not once have I ben successfull, putting port 22 user root and PW is alpine set to SFTP. I just tried again now and received this error:

The connect() operation on the socket timed out.

I have boss prefs installed and cycled SSH on and off, I've uninstalled OPENSSH and reinstalled, restarted phone, soft reboot, hard reboot...aLL KINDS OF REBOOTS and nothing. I just tried on my White 3G with ATT and also with my 2G running 1.1.4 on TMOBILE. Is there a setting on my mac i need to chance, is there a setting on my phone i need to change? I want to get this working definitely now because of the new TZONES hack, and I really dont want to upgrade to 2.0 on my 2G just because I cant deal with the bugs on two phones....someone guide me, and don't tell me "Use the search button" or "read the guides" because I've seen you guys flaming others for asking questions with no research first.

Thanks

[SundayDuffer]

the host key probably doesnt match.
How comfortable are you with re-pwn? you might have to do that.

[giancarlo]

re-pwn the phone? Do you think it will have to do with that? My 2G on 1.1.4 with unlocked using ZIPHONE 3.0 and that one doesn't work either...

[jakecigar]

don't re-pwn! don't reboot any more!

verify that your iPhone is using your network (not a neighbor's). then write down the IP address it is using.

go into Terminal on your mac, and enter the command
ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

find your TRUE errors, and correct them!

almost all version updates run into the "old host key" problem on OS X.

[SundayDuffer]

it happened to me on my first gen once..the fix for that was, i used PuttyGen to create a host key and use that key to launch WinPSC. This was on PC.

And for the 3G, it happened again...and now that i am on a MAC..didnt know how to create host key, so i restored, repwned, and it worked. Currently using Transmit and Cyberduck.

[giancarlo]

awesome, at the office now but will try this tonight. Thanks for the help guys

ok so i went into terminal and entered the root@xxx.x.x.x and it returned this message:

:CONNECT TO HOST PORT 22 OPERATION TIMED OUT

Any ideas, its actually the same error i get sometimes when I use Cyberduck

[jakecigar]

that means the iPhone isn't running ssh or your router is blocking that port or it's the wrong IP address or wrong router.

what happens when you ping your iPhone? you should get

ping xxx
PING xxx (192.168.15.112): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.15.112: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=122.725 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.15.112: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=456.123 ms

when I ssh to the wrong IP address I get timed out.

ssh root@192.168.15.107
ssh: connect to host 192.168.15.107 port 22: Operation timed out

[giancarlo]

thanks....will try it on a buddies WIFI.....