Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain name resolves to and also the ip on my router. I don't know which, if

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Antony Gelberg
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:28AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: If you think I've got myself into a right muddle with this business, you're correct. Not a case of failing to rtfm, rather of too much rtfm (or the wrong fm, perhaps). I think a good book or other guide on IP networking wouldn't

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2004, Antony Gelberg wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 10:07:28AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: If you think I've got myself into a right muddle with this business, you're correct. Not a case of failing to rtfm, rather of too much rtfm (or the wrong fm, perhaps). I think a good

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: On 20 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain name resolves to and also the

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [snip] Monique, I really am grateful to you for supplying this information; exactly what I was looking for. I've adopted your suggested format for /etc/hosts. The lan IP address in the router is 192.168.0.20, which is why I had it in /etc/hosts.

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: On 21 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [snip] Monique, I really am grateful to you for supplying this information; exactly what I was looking for. I've adopted your suggested format for /etc/hosts. [snip] You're welcome =) Hope it's working for

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Feb 2004, Jack Carroll wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:48:55AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: which I seem to remember, from a previous abortive attempt to set up plip, was the way to go, but no luck. I also tried putting in the IP addresses from the router; I could then ping one of them but not telnet to it. If

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Feb 2004, Shaul Karl wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:48:55AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: which I seem to remember, from a previous abortive attempt to set up plip, was the way to go, but no luck. I also tried putting in the IP addresses from the router; I could then ping one of

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain name resolves to and also the ip on my router. I don't know which, if either, I need.)

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Shaul Karl
I am confused. Can you post a simple ASCII draw of your network? Does the firewall contain log rules? Which firewall is it? -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Jacob S. wrote: [snip] In your case, you want hostname -f to resolve to arcadia.acampbell.org.uk and mimosas.acampbell.org.uk. (Then, of course, you still have to have dns setup to point to the appropriate IP for each of those machines or you won't be able to ssh to them

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Anthony Campbell penned: I am indeed grateful to everyone for help with this. Following suggestions received so far I've tried (for this computer) setting my hostname to arcadia.acampbell.org.uk and putting the following in /etc/hosts: ---cut- 127.0.0.1

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [snip] This is just the hosts file for one of the machines ... What are you intending to accomplish with the acampbell.org.uk and accampbell.uklinux.net entries? Each entry after the IP address on a line should be an identifier for this machine

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-19 Thread Jack Carroll
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for

SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? Also, what is the hostname I have to supply? The FQDN seems to be acampbell.org.uk but this is the same for

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:25:08 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? In my /etc/hosts.allow file

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? sshd does not portmapper. Check if sshd is bound to the right

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:25:08 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? I don't know about this one, but I don't think so? Also, what is

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Lou Losee
* Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-18 12:45]: On 18 Feb 2004, Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:25:08 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [sshd does not accept connections] Thanks for this reply. I'm getting connection refused on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at one time though not now.) Bastille asks you if you want to set a

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? I don't know about this

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [sshd does not accept connections] Thanks for this reply. I'm getting connection refused on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at one time though not

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Lou Losee penned: Thanks for this reply. I'm getting connection refused on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at one time though not now.) My understanding of Bastille is that it's not a service per se; it's an application that,

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: On 18 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Jeff D
Anthony Campbell wrote: On 18 Feb 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [sshd does not accept connections] Thanks for this reply. I'm getting connection refused on port 22. I don't know if this port is blocked, perhaps. (I had bastille in place at one

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 09:25, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. Have you made sure that the remote host is running sshd? If not, a refused connection should be expected. I have portmapper

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Jacob S. penned: There is something called round-robin dns, among other things, for the purpose of having multiple machines answer queries for the same domain name. This is used for domains where web and e-mail traffic is heavy enough that one server can't handle the load. It's

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-18 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:31:00 -0700 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-02-18, Jacob S. penned: There is something called round-robin dns, among other things, for the purpose of having multiple machines answer queries for the same domain name. This is used for domains where