Does anything appear in the serverside logs that might indicate why
the connection is being dropped? This certainly sounds like a server
issue rather than a client issue to me, or perhaps an issue somewhere
in the connection such as the router. I've seen this before when my
router's tables got corrupted and I had to reboot it. This particular
error message always frustrates me because it really doesn't give a
clue as to what caused it. It's a common enough UNIX error in
networking, basically it means "the connection failed, and I don't
know why." I've seen it mean the SSH server on the host was down, or a
firewall rule is causing your connection to be rejected, or any number
of things in between. Can you connect to any other ports besides ssh
to get the logs? Have you changed anything recently on that server or
in any servers in between your Mac and the ssh host related to ssh
access?
On Nov 18, 2008, at 03:24, Babcock, Michael Alex wrote:
hi;
i'm attempting to ssh into a server of mine used with the following
commands:
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and this has always worked for me, prompting me for a password and
then this would be entered, however i've seen this:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
of late and that comes up right before it would normally ask me for
a password, any ideas? I'm guessing it's on my server end and not my
local end? I've tryed removing the .ssh/known_hosts file and it
didn't even ask me to verify that i want to add the key from the
server after i attempted to re connect, again get
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
as an error.
i await your answers.
mike
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