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calef13

Member

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

ssh and iptables woes

Hi,

I am in the process of setting up a home server. I am manually configuring iptables and have opened port 22 and have the related,established rule there too. But I can still never connect to sshd. I think that the problem may lie with sshd itself as my rules seem fine and I get the following error when I try to connect from the server itself over the loopback or over the network itself:

ssh_exchange_identification: connection closed by remote host

I just get a connection closed error on putty on remote hosts however.

Can anyone advise me what this error messge means or offer any advice.

Calef13

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: ssh and iptables woes

Add sshd (e.g. sshd:ALL) to /etc/hosts.allow on your server machine.

calef13

Member

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: ssh and iptables woes

Thanks that did the trick.

Calef13