On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Steven Boothe wrote:
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:00:24 -0700
> From: Steven Boothe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] OpenSSH won't accept connections?
>
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > ...
> > ...
> > but in your case, when I ssh to the IP your logs show, it seems to wait
> > for a long time.
>
> That's probably because that IP address is behind a firewall...
>
> > I gotta run out for dinner soon, could you run an nmap on your system?
>
> Wow, running nmap was an awsome idea (thanks)! Just look at this output:
> "
> Starting nmap V. 2.30BETA17 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
> Interesting ports on (63.196.197.254):
> Port State Service
> 25/tcp open smtp
> 113/tcp open auth
>
> TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=random positive increments
> Difficulty=1562052 (Good luck!)
> Remote operating system guess: Linux 2.1.122 - 2.2.14
>
> Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0 seconds
> "
> What do you make of that? Nothing's open on port 22??? Yet I have the
> "ListenAdress" variable set to "63.196.197.0", and now I've even set
> hosts.allow to ALL:ALL, and hosts.deny to <null>. Not to mention that
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd status == running...
>
ListenAddress 63.196.197.0 means only guys with an ip that matches
64.196.197.x can get in. I'm sure you would want 0.0.0.0 (everyone) for
that line. That is how I have mine set up, seems to work on any machine.
Also, try to "ssh localhost" on that box.
Sorry, missed the part about sshd running last time.
> This is really odd...?
>
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 21
