SUMMARY: ssh question

From: Christopher L. Barnard <cbar44_at_tsg.cbot.com>
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 13:25:52 EDT
I asked:

> I have a question concerning OpenSsh 3.0.2 and 3.1 (p1) on Solaris 7 and
> Solaris 8 servers.  I am able to connect from machine A to machine B,
> but not from machine B back to A.  This occurs on only a handful of
> machines, and I have not detected any pattern as for as OS level or
> OpenSsh version.  On all machines the /etc/ssh_config file these entries
> are changed from the default:
> 
> ForwardAgent no
> ForwardX11 no
> UsePrivilegedPort yes
> StrictHostKeyChecking no
> 
> and the etc/sshd_config these entries are changed from the default:
>
> IgnoreRhosts no
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> PrintMotd no
> 
> the error message when I try to connect is
> 
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> 
> any ideas what else to check? TIA and I will summarize of course.

The answer:

<dolt slap>
the /etc/hosts.allow file of course.  These new boxes are on a new network and I had forgotten to update my hosts.allow file.  

Thanks to:

the millions of people who graciously pointed out the obvious to me.

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