Aaron Brashears wrote: > > D1 (10.20.0.1), and D2 (10.20.0.2) are both synched to potato on > debian.org. Both machines have telnetd, telnet, ssh, and sshd available > or running. Here's a sample session from D1:
> --------------------------------- > $ telnet 170.1.36.137 > Trying 170.1.36.137... > Connected to 170.1.36.137. > Escape character is '^]'. > Connection closed by foreign host. > > $ ssh 170.1.36.137 > Connection closed by foreign host. > --------------------------------- What is IP 170.1.36.137? Is this D2? What happened to 10.20.0.2? > > Here's what happens from D2: > > --------------------------------- > $ ping 10.20.0.1 PING 10.20.0.1 (10.20.0.1): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.6 ms > 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms > 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms > 64 bytes from 10.20.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.3 ms > > --- 10.20.0.1 ping statistics --- > 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max = 0.3/0.3/0.6 ms > > $ telnet 10.20.0.1 > Connected to 10.20.0.1. > Escape character is '^]'. > Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) kona > kona login: > > $ ssh 10.20.0.1 > scribe:/home/aaron# ssh -l aaron 10.20.0.1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > --------------------------------- > > How on earth could this happen? Anyone know why one of the machines > would blatently refuse connections, but the other wouldn't? Have you looked at the hosts.deny and hosts.allow on D2? Compare them to the ones on D1. > For > reference, the IP addresses were modified in the logs. I don't know what you mean by this. Who modified the logs? Matthew