Odd Console Behavior

[mantis]

Forgive me for my lack of technical lingo. I will try to explain this the best I can.

When I SSH in, I can log in and access the server just fine. However, after a while of being logged in, my session seems to halt. I am using PuTTy and I am not sure if it's the program or the server, but randomly I cannot type or send commands to the server. I am then forced to close PuTTy and try again. However, when I try to log in again, I get a console error: "could not log in to domain etc etc". I then have to reboot the server and then it will work fine.

Could it be the server or is it on my end. I have yet to install anything on the server (waiting for my DirectAdmin license number).

I am using:

CentOS release 4.0 (Final)
Kernel 2.6.11-xenU on an i686

Any help would be great. Thanks.

[matta]

Make sure you have keepalive enabled in putty and that your router/firewall doesn't kill "idle" connections. As far as the domain error, it's becuse the system still sees your old login and hence the console access program is still running. We're working on tweaking the sshd configuration file to make this a bit smarter.

[mantis]

Thanks. I will look into that.