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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
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>Can anyone give me any clue what's wrong?
>
>Jack
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Please check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny of the remote machine 
and see if there are any restrictions for sshd. This also happens if the 
remote machine has strict key checking enabled.

Regards,
- Sarath