begin: Henry House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 01:24:08PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> [...]
> > i've telneted to port 22, and here's where the trouble begins:
> >
> > satan# telnet (problematic machine) 22
> > Trying (problematic machine)...
> > Connected to (problematic machine).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > compare this with:
> >
> > satan# telnet belial 22
> > Trying 169.237.43.86...
> > Connected to belial.ucdavis.edu.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.9p2
> >
> > i know that ssh can be built to use tcpwrappers, but suppose /etc/hosts.deny
> > isn't the problem. also, suppose sshd is running.
>
> That's an odd way to state it ;-). Do you mean that you have already checked
> and ruled out these possibilities?
well, kind of. i haven't looked at the wrapper files myself, but the person
didn't modify them (except to comment out the ALL: PARANOID line). so i'm
assuming that's not the problem. debian doesn't ship with stuff in the
wrapper files (i'm not even sure if debian ships with libwrapper support in
ssh). i know it's not run from within inetd.conf.
> Otherwise, perhaps a bad firewall rule?
i'm not sure that's the problem either, i'm afraid. i'm pretty sure there
are no ipchain rules on this machine (and no firewall machine that i know
of).
some days i get the strangest feeling that computers hate me...
pete
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