sshd refusing logins from certain hosts

[Darren Tucker]

Jake Hawkes wrote:
> I cannot ssh into my server from the ISP directly.
[...]
> When it fails, it first asks me for my username, then says "connection closed".
> 
> any ideas?

Tell us what platform and version of OpenSSH you're using?  Look at the 
log file?  Run sshd in debug mode and see what is says?

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