Ansible fails to connect with SSH (banner exchange)

Question

Sorry in advance if the question is not clear and/or if i am not askin where i should.

I have issues with connecting to hosts with ansible via SSH. It worked few days ago but i have been having the same message error for several days :

        camille@ubuntu:~$ ansible all  -m ping -u remote
192.xxx.xxx.xxx | UNREACHABLE! => {
        "changed": false, 
        "msg": "Failed to connect to the host via ssh: Connection timed out during banner exchange\r\n", 
        "unreachable": true
    }

SSH connection (without ansible) with working nicely so i don't really understand the issue. I'm running Ansible on a Ubuntu 16.04 VM and the host i want to reach is a CentOS 7 VM.

My hosts file is the following :

[test]    
192.xxx.xxx.xxx ansible_ssh_user=remote ansible_ssh_pass=password ansible_sudo_pass='password' #VM CentOS

I tried the solution explained here but it didn't fix the problem.

Edit 1: After trying Ripper Tops solution and testing some other things, my inventory now looks like this :

[test]
192.xxx.xxx.xxx ansible_connection=ssh ansible_user=remote ansible_password='password'

[test:vars]
proxy=my_proxy:8080

I also tried increasing timeout to 25, i still have the same issue.

Edit 2 :

After changing my ansible.cfg file, the error message has changed :

192.xxx.xxx.xxx | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false, 
    "msg": "SSH Error: data could not be sent to remote host \"192.xxx.xxx.xxx\". Make sure this host can be reached over ssh", 
    "unreachable": true }

I test ssh connection again, it is still working nicely.

My config file is now :

[defaults]

timeout = 25
host_key_checking = False 
roles_path = roles/
gathering = smart 

[ssh_connection]
ssh_args = -o 
ControlMaster=auto -o 
ControlPersist=600s 
control_path = %(directory)s/%%h-%%r 
pipelining = True

Do you have any clue about this ?

Answer 1

Try to use ansible_user instead ansible_ssh_user and ansible_password instead ansible_ssh_pass. It depends of your ansible version. Also you may need to place [group:vars] after [group] section in the inventory file.

There is simple way to check difference

ansible 192.168.15.29 -i your_hosts_file -m ping -e "ansible_ssh_user=remote ansible_ssh_pass=password"

or

ansible 192.168.15.29 -i your_hosts_file -m ping -e "ansible_user=remote ansible_password=password"

Answer 2

I finally fixed my issue ! :D

• I apply the suggestions of Ripper Tops (thanks again) : change the ansible.cfg (see the 1st message)

• I changed my hosts file to the following :

  [test] 192.xxx.xxx.xxx ansible_user=remote ansible_password=remote_password ansible_ssh_user=remote ansible_ssh_pass=remote_password

  [test:vars] proxy=my_proxy:8080

• I pinged my hosts using the -c paramiko option

Thanks again Ripper Tops for your time & help :)