Re: ssh refuses connections

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:57:40PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
| The box I'm trying to connect from is 192.168.1.1.
| And I don't think these files affect sshd. On the firewall I have ALL:PARANOID
| for hosts.deny and nothing in hosts.allow, 

That means you are denying all incoming access to the system (to
services that check hosts.allow and hosts.deny).

| and I'm running mutt on that box right now through SSH.

Outgoing connections are a different matter than incoming connection.
The hosts.allow and hosts.deny have no effect on outgoing connections.

-D