From: Fleuriot Damien <m...@my.gd>
        To: me...@bristol.ac.uk
        Subject: Re: cannot ssh into a box with DHCP assigned IP address
        Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:31:22 +0100
        Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

        On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> 
wrote:

        > I have a laptop with FreeBSD -current,
        > with ip address assigned via DHCP.
        > The laptop has neither a static ip address,
        > nor a domain.
        >
        > I can ping the laptop fine, but cannot
        > ssh into it. The sshd is running, /etc/ssh/ssd_config
        > seems fine, /etc/hosts.allow is fine.
        > However, /etc/hosts is just the default:

While on the problem machine, can you ssh to localhost? ssh to the IP address?

I would suspect the problem is in /etc/hosts.allow or /etc/hosts.deny, or
perhaps the subnet mask is incorrect.

The lack of a domain should not be a problem.

daniel feenberg
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