Network embarassment
Tom Adelstein
adelste at yahoo.com
Tue May 10 02:34:31 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:55 +0930, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2005 11:32 pm, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > On the machine that you think is running sshd, then try 'telnet
> > 127.0.0.1 22' and see if you get a response.
>
> That worked.
>
> > The try 'telnet
> > <ip-address> 22' and see if you get the same response, where
> > <ip-address> is the address of your network card.
>
> This didn't work. On impulse I tried 'ifconfig -a' and found that I had
> reversed the addresses for host (which IS 182.168.1.3) and remote (which IS
> 192.168.1.4) in BOTH /etc/hosts files, What a twit! :-(
>
> I can now connect using SSH2 in gftp. :-)
>
> Thanks, everyone for your combined help.
Brian, don't fret. Most problems boil down to typos.
You learned so good troubleshooting techniques - right?
Thanks for letting us help, mate.
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