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Date:      Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:03:05 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To:        Subhash Gopinath <subhashg@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't ssh to remote FreeBSD machine
Message-ID:  <20050227100305.7543d6d4@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <81703d8a0502262036cafd125@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <81703d8a0502262036cafd125@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:36:33 -0800
Subhash Gopinath <subhashg@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to FreeBSD and recently installed FreeBSD 5.3. I'm unable to
> access the machine (ssh/telnet) over a network .... I can only ping.
> However sshd is running fine as I can ssh on the local machine...
> 
> I suspect some firewall rules restricting access to the machine .. But
> I'm not familiar with the firewall in FreeBSD. It would be gr8 if
> someone can throw some light to the problem.

Do a ssh -vvv user@machine and see the output. Note that user root can't
connect by ssh by default for security reasons. Without more info it's
hard to say what's the problem.

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-- 
IOnut
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