Re: Help a sshd newbie!

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 23:59 US/Central, Ken Keefe wrote:
> I went to the server itself and tried to ssh itself. It worked when I
> used 127.0.0.1, but not when I tried the IP of the ethernet card,
> 192.168.1.29. When I tried the IP of eth0, I got the same message of
> Connection closed by remote host.
>
> Any ideas?

Turn your firewall off (i.e. make it accept everything) and then try 
connecting again on the local box.  If you are paranoid, disconnect the 
ethernet cable form the NIC.  This will tell you if the problem is with 
your firewall settings or with sshd.

Regards,
- Robert


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