On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 11:08:16AM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > Janina, > > well, adding that line to /etc/hosts.allowed didn't jork. The machine > won't even respond to telnet when I use its IP address. It will respond > to ping, however. No need for nmap and other advanced tools when you can simply tell with telnet and netstat. When you are on that machine try telnet localhost 22 and you should get a response like Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1 telnet from other host to trouble machine should get similar response. ssh configuration is all in /etc/ssh You need to make sure sshd is running and if so try telnet test as mentioned above. netstat -at will tell you which ports the machine is listening to. Needless to say, ssh needs to be among them. There should be a line like: tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN Also, make sure that the configuration for ssh daemon is correct, i.e. the keys for the server were generated and stored in /etc/ssh. File names are like ssh_host_dsa_key ssh_host_key.pub ssh_host_rsa_key.pub etc. > > I'm beginning to think I should call that machine the mule, because it's > so stubborn. > > John -- Rafael _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list