Re: Can't connect to one server from a particular LAN

Mark Sanders wrote:
> I can't ssh to a server from any machine on one particular LAN - here's
> the debug:
>
> OpenSSH_4.2p1 Debian-7ubuntu3.1, OpenSSL 0.9.8a 11 Oct 2005
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0
> debug1: Connecting to salford.zen.co.uk [62.3.91.113] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/mark/.ssh/identity type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/mark/.ssh/id_rsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/mark/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer
>
> I can connect to this server port 22 from a different LAN; I can also
> telnet to the server from this LAN.
> The debug is from an attempt from an Ubuntu box; I normally attempt to
> connect from XP using putty, and get a 'Network error: software caused
> connection abort' error.

That error is characteristic of a connection that is dropped by 
tcpwrappers so you might want to check the hosts.allow and hosts.deny 
files (usually in /etc/ or /usr/local/etc/ depending on how it was built).

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