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Not able to SSH

I am not able to ssh to one of the EC2 host in AWS:

bash-3.2$ ssh -vvvv -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa_APP_GIT 54.12.34.56 -l b123
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011
debug1: Reading configuration data /Users/user1/.ssh/config
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 20: Applying options for *
debug1: /etc/ssh_config line 102: Applying options for *
debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
debug1: Connecting to 54.12.34.56 [54.12.34.56] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug3: Incorrect RSA1 identifier
debug3: Could not load "/Users/user1/.ssh/id_rsa_APP_GIT" as a RSA1 public key
debug1: identity file /Users/user1/.ssh/id_rsa_APP_GIT type 1
debug1: identity file /Users/user1/.ssh/id_rsa_APP_GIT-cert type -1
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Operation timed out

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Though I can telnet it:

bash-3.2$ telnet 54.12.34.56 22
Trying 54.12.34.56...
Connected to ec2-54-12-34-56.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.

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Appreciate if someone can help in suggesting how to troubleshoot it

beer9Asked: 2015-04-21

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Zephyr ICTCloud ArchitectCommented: 2015-04-26

Ah, ok, didn't know that ...

Well, if you already tried regenerating your ssh key and or clear out your ssh config, and that didn't work, there's a way to upgrade OpenSSH on Mac OS X that you can check out here.

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Zephyr ICTCloud ArchitectCommented: 2015-04-21

It seems to get stuck on the exchange of SSH versions:

debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.2
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Operation timed out

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Might want to check versions on your local machine... Or check local ssh config... Or try by removing old ssh config files if any exist.

beer9Author Commented: 2015-04-22

Thanks for hint, here my local ssh config, I am using SSH:

bash-3.2$ cat /etc/ssh_config  | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
 Host *
   SendEnv LANG LC_*
Host *
    XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth
bash-3.2$ cat /etc/sshd_config  | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
SyslogFacility AUTHPRIV
AuthorizedKeysFile	.ssh/authorized_keys
UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox		# Default for new installations.
AcceptEnv LANG LC_*
Subsystem	sftp	/usr/libexec/sftp-server
XAuthLocation /opt/X11/bin/xauth

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shalomcCTOCommented: 2015-04-22

I think that the problem is here

debug3: Incorrect RSA1 identifier
debug3: Could not load "/Users/user1/.ssh/id_rsa_APP_GIT" as a RSA1 public key

Can you show us the contents of /Users/user1/.ssh/authorized_keys ? This is the user1 public key on the server, not your private key, and it is supposed to be shared so you are not at risk.