On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:50, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Greetings! > > When I try to connect from a remote machine to my one at home > using ssh I get the error message "ssh: connect to host 64.146.133.1 port > 22: Connection refused" -- but using ssh in the outgoing direction (i.e. > from home to the remote location) works fine. Any suggestions as to how > to troubleshoot this? > > Thanks for the help! > Jerry I addition to the other suggestions, sshd uses /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Check that they are configured to allow your remote machine in. By default sshd puts messages in /var/log/secure, look there to see if sshd is actually seeing the attempted connection. Also, if your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file has VerifyReverseMapping turned on, you will get kicked out if your remote address does not work with a reverse dns lookup Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Lucent Technologies, Phoenix Email: stymar@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 623-582-7323 FAX: 623-581-4390 Company: http://www.lucent.com Personal: http://www.swlink.net/~styma
