On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:38:15PM -0700, Winston Williams wrote: > I am just setting up an OpenBSD machine that I am hosting remotely in a > data center. I was configuring qmail on two ssh sessions, when both > sessions suddenly died. > > ssh will no longer respond > > apache and bind are still responding and work perfectly > > When I try to connect via ssh I get the following error: > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > And here it is with -v verbose: > > OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 Debian-8.sarge.4, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004 This is a Debian box, and while Debian is a great Linux distro it's not OpenBSD. Having said that, odds are you have mucked up your /etc/hosts.deny and/or /etc/hosts.allow files. I would think that you might want to ask any follow up questions to Debian users. Please do *not* respond to me off list > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Connecting to tigl [207.114.###.###] port 22. > debug1: Connection established. > debug1: identity file /home/winston/.ssh/identity type -1 > debug1: identity file /home/winston/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 > debug1: identity file /home/winston/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > I am afraid that it will be at least 24 hours before they will be able > to restart my machine, I am at a low-cost, unstaffed data center. > > -- > Winston Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
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