ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

[Tim Rice]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Sam Park wrote:

> Hi,
>    
>   I'm getting this error when I ssh to the servers.
>   ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>    
>   I added /etc/hosts.allow and it actually worked once and if I tried again I get the same error.

You did not mention whether you added by name or by IP.
Every time I've seen this error it has been a DNS problem. And I only
see this on systems that are in hosts.allow by name.

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