On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 08:01:50PM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > At 07:17 PM 1/19/2002 -0600, G. T. Francisco, III wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:58:06AM -0700, Lee Roberts said: > >> I can get an SSH session from the intranet but not from the internet. > >> A port scan shows TCP port 22 open but the connection is refused when > >> trying to connect to my Linux box from the internet. I probably have > >> a config file problem. Can someone save me the time of studying man > >> pages, etc? BTW, I'm using ttssh on a laptop running Win2K to try to > >> establish the SSH connection to the Linux box (works OK on the > >> intranet but not the internet). > >> > ><snip> > > > >Check your firewall (ipchains/iptables) rules, check your hosts.allow > >and hosts.deny also. > > Why would I need to check iptables when a port scan shows the TCP port 22 open? > > hosts.allow and hosts.deny are empty. >
The port could be open (you did the port scan from the internet, right?) but an iptables rule could still deny access to a specific ip address or interface. HTH,
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