FW: connection refused

[Darren Tucker]

Chris Black wrote:
> Sun Solaris 9 client tries to connect to my AIX server running
> OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 and get "connection refused".

Make sure that your AIX server has a SSH server and that it's running 
("ps -eaf |grep sshd"), and that the sshd is listening on the IP address 
you're trying to connect to ("netstat -an" and look for something 
listening on port 22).  You can also try connecting to the AIX server's 
sshd from the AIX server itself ("telnet aixserver 22" or "telnet 
localhost 22")  If the server is running you'll get a banner starting 
with "SSH-".

If those all check out, the start looking for a firewall between client 
and server that might be refusing the connections.

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