From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 07:28:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10BB1065673 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ED978FC1B for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 07:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o477ScOD034618; Fri, 7 May 2010 00:28:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 7 May 2010 00:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 00:28:37 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Tim Daneliuk Message-ID: <20100507072837.GB68294@thought.org> References: <20100506172149.GA42430@thought.org> <4BE2FD22.3060302@tundraware.com> <20100506213556.GB42975@thought.org> <4BE33781.90108@tundraware.com> <20100507051357.GA67922@thought.org> <4BE3A2A1.6060007@tundraware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BE3A2A1.6060007@tundraware.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: ssh: port 22: connection refuused X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 07:28:54 -0000 On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:18:25AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 5/7/2010 12:13 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >> > >> What's in your /etc/hosts.allow file? > > > > > > > > # Start by allowing everything (this prevents the rest of the file > > # from working, so remove it when you need protection). > > # The rules here work on a "First match wins" basis. > > ALL : ALL : allow > > > > that i moused and pasted from my main desktop. > > > > > > OK and you've indicated that sshd is running. A few other thoughts: > > 1) Is there a firewall running on your machine that could be preventing > the connection? pcbsd seems to have its oen kind of ipf; thanks for the pointer. be nice if this were the fault. > > 2) Is there a firewall running on your *client* machine that could > be interfering. no; my firewall stuff is all my pfSense computer. > > 3) Log into the FreeBSD machine and see if you can ssh to localhost > to just to confirm that sshd is working. If that works, try sshing > to the same machine using its IP, and then its address to make sure > DNS is resolving properly. i did this hours ago. i thought it would fail, but nope. i ssh'd from the thinkpad to the thinkpad. ....you know, it might be worth building the ssh stuff in ports before i blow away the entire distribution.... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com > PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.83a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org 99 44/100% Guaranteed Novel