Have you checked the /etc/hosts.deny file on the machine that's not accepting
the connection?
Since you are runnign mandrake I would guess that portsentry put your other
machine in the hosts.deny also after checking that make sure you put the
machine you are attempting to connect from's IP address in the
/etc/portsentry/alwaysignore file too
-Joe
On Friday 26 July 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote:
> On Friday 26 July 2002 16:45, you wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 16:19, Bill wrote:
> > > I am able to ssh from box b to box a but not in the reverse direction.
> > >
> > > [root@organic-earth bill]# ssh 192.168.1.101
> > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> > >
> > > I thought that mebbe I just needed a newer version of openssh but did a
> > > very minimal install (Mandrake 8.0) on box b so am missing a boot load
> > > of dependencies. Is there ANY clue from the message above that would
> > > let me simply hack a config file and be on my way?
> >
> > Hmmmm...check out this link:
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=ssh_ex
> >ch
> > ange_identification%3A+Connection+closed+by+remote+host&btnG=Google+Searc
> >h Remember: "Google is your friend." :-)
>
> I've been googling most of the day. I have been downloading files to "a"
> and scp'ing them to "b" and trying to install them only to be met by
> dependency problems at every turn. I kept getting deeper and deeper ...
> that's why I posted for some help. Thanks bunches to ALL the folks who
> offered up suggestions even if they weren't the full answer this time. I
> will be going back over them in the near future to apply your knowledge to
> my situation and to become a better admin. I am, indeed, grateful to be a
> member of not only SLUG, but also a couple of other LUG's. You guys (and
> the occaisional gal!) are the greatest!
> ---------------------------
>
> And the lucky wiener is:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ssh_exchange_identification:+Connection+c
>losed+by+remote+host&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=vs5r9uc4jg4j8uslfqmpkp
>228p2c2ukdf7%404ax.com&rnum=6
>
> Thanks!
>
> [root@b /root]# cat /etc/hosts.allow
> #
> # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
> # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
> # by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
> #
> ALL : 192.168.1. <--- was empty
> #
> [root@b /root]#
>
> The above is via ssh from box a to box b. Success. I may make this a bit
> more restrictive in the future but it is working for now. Also rebooted it
> remotely and logged in from "a" without having a login on "b" yet. All this
> is new territory to me. I tried it way back at RH5.2 but didn't have enough
> clues yet to pull it off. Now ... with help ... I can.
>
> Aren't computers fun?
>
> I'm building the second box to be a headless web server and needed a way to
> administer it remotely. Now I have ssh. Webmin
> (https://192.168.1.101:10000) bails out with "Connection closed by remote
> server". My guess is that I need to convince Apache that I am an okay kinda
> guy.
>
> Not having to twiddle with the KVM sure is a big help.
>
> Bill
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