Re: ssh refuses connections
No. I don't think the firewall is the problem. I have problems connecting
through that box as well as from that box. It's not a firewall appliance, it's
a Potato/Woody box running ipchains and ipmasq.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:57:00PM -0400, Wes Byne wrote:
> If your firewall is like mine (linksys) then it messes up the connection when the daemon forks if it attaches to a privileged port (< 1023). Try using ssh -P hostname to get the daemon to go to a non-privileged port behind the firewall.
>
> -Wes
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:16:12AM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> > I have four machines: a firewall, an internal server, and two workstations.
> > When I try an SSH connection from the firewall to the server, or from outside
> > the firewall using its port forwarding to go to the server, I get the error:
> > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
> >
> > I can connect just fine from the two workstations to the server, the server to
> > the workstations, or any of the internal boxes to the firewall.
> > The only changes that I've made since it last worked were the installation
> > of NIS on the server (which has since been removed), and some NFS changes.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> >
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