Re: Connections Work Only One Way

On 01/16/2007 09:56 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I'm upgrading my systems from Slackware-10.2 to Slackware-11.0 and have
> come across a ssh/scp error that I cannot resolve.
>
>   The network has one server/workstation (running Slackware-11.0 with a
> 2.6.19.2 kernel), one notebook (running Slackware-11.0 with a 2.6.18.6
> kernel), and one laptop (running Slackware-10.2 with a 2.4.31 kernel).
>
>   The desktop (server/workstation) can ssh/scp to both portables.
> Permissions are correct (0700 for ~/.ssh and 0600 for the files in that
> directory) on all machines.
>
>   The two portables can ssh/scp between themselves.
>
>   Neither portable can ssh/scp to the desktop. The error is
> "ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host."
Usually this message is triggered by tcp_wrappers, when the client 
trying to connect is denied via /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}