Could you be connected behind a proxy? Some company routing rules will automatically forward all port-80 requests to a proxy box.
-acp On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:57:20PM +0200, GVG GVG wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Floor Terra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 20 May 2008, GVG GVG wrote: > > > > Dear Group, > >> > >> when I try to remotely ssh connect to a OpenBSD 4.3 box via port 80 I get: > >> > >> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > >> > >> Are you sure you are not trying to connect to httpd? > > > > -bash-3.2$ ssh -p 80 -v brobding.mine.nu > > OpenSSH_4.6, OpenSSL 0.9.7j 04 May 2006 > > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > > debug1: Connecting to brobding.mine.nu [62.194.34.244] port 80. > > debug1: Connection established. > > debug1: identity file /home/floort/.ssh/identity type -1 > > debug1: identity file /home/floort/.ssh/id_rsa type -1 > > debug1: identity file /home/floort/.ssh/id_dsa type -1 > > ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > > > This is a connection to my own httpd. > > > > Please note, that the same box allows me to use port 443 > >> and both ports (80 and 443) are registered in the sshd_config file. > >> > >> Have you restarted sshd? > > > > Floor > > > > > Thanks for your reply! > > Apache doesn't run nor any other httpd service. And yes, when defining port > 80 in the sshd_config file I did re-start the whole box! Also when I go via > a browser to my server it displays: > > SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.8 > Protocol mismatch. > > is that due to the port 80 I defined in the sshd_config file? Does > this make sense? > > Thanks for your attention > > George [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]