ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Simon Wilkinson sxw at dcs.ed.ac.uk
Sat Mar 17 11:57:36 EST 2001


> hello,
> 
> i built an ssh 2.5.1p2 package for solaris. 

Did you build with tcpwrappers enabled? - I've seen this error when trying
to ssh to a host that I wasn't in the hosts.allow file for.

If tcpwrappers is enabled, you'll need to add the sshd service to that
machine's hosts.allow file. 

Cheers,

Simon.






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