On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:18:25AM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 5/7/2010 12:13 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> >>
> >> What's in your /etc/hosts.allow file?
> >
> >
> >
> > # Start by allowing everything (this prevents the rest of the file
> > # from working, so remove it when you need protection).
> > # The rules here work on a "First match wins" basis.
> > ALL : ALL : allow
> >
> > that i moused and pasted from my main desktop.
> >
> >
>
> OK and you've indicated that sshd is running. A few other thoughts:
>
> 1) Is there a firewall running on your machine that could be preventing
> the connection?
pcbsd seems to have its oen kind of ipf; thanks for the
pointer. be nice if this were the fault.
>
> 2) Is there a firewall running on your *client* machine that could
> be interfering.
no; my firewall stuff is all my pfSense computer.
>
> 3) Log into the FreeBSD machine and see if you can ssh to localhost
> to just to confirm that sshd is working. If that works, try sshing
> to the same machine using its IP, and then its address to make sure
> DNS is resolving properly.
i did this hours ago. i thought it would fail, but nope. i
ssh'd from the thinkpad to the thinkpad. ....you know, it
might be worth building the ssh stuff in ports before i blow
away the entire distribution....
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