[plug] cannot ssh server

[Peter J. Nicol]

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Jon Miller [mailto:jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au]
>  Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:51 PM
>  To: plug
>  Subject: [plug] cannot ssh server
>
>
>  I've been trying to access my server from an internal linux wkstn and I
>  keep getting the following:
>
>  ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
>
>
>  I've disable the firewall except for the following three commands
>  echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>  iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE
>  iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
>
>  I still can not access the server any ideas?
>

Paste the error message into the website you will find at
http:\\www.google.com and press the 'I feel lucky' button.

This should take you to a page with a description of a problem that bears a
remarkable similarity to the one you are apparantly experiencing.  There is
even a suggestion of how to fix it, but, as always, ymmv.