Network embarassment

[Tom Adelstein]

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.