On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:46 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > "connection refused" means nothing else than connection > refused and that can be a outgoing firewall, firewall on the > remote-side and any filter/networking component between the machines You should get a different error message for when connection can't be made due to firewall ignoring traffic, or trying the wrong address, or no server listening. A no route to host type of error. Firewalls actually refusing/denying a connection, rather than ignoring it, or servers actually refusing to allow the connection, ought to produce a refusal error message. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org