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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Jack Raats <jack@raats.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: Strange error
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On Fri, 2005-Jun-10 22:41:36 +0200, Jack Raats wrote:
>This day I've a very strange error when trying to connect to my FreeBSD machine (4.11-STABLE)
>I got the following error:
>ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
>Can anyone give me any clue what's wrong?

Try turning on debugging on the client (ssh -vvv ...).  You can also
turn on debugging on the server with '-d' (though you probably also want
to use '-p').  If the problem isn't obvious, compare the output with a
debugging session that works.
-- 
Peter Jeremy