From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 31 14:28:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125EF16A4E0 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:28:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D27A43D72 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:28:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 6451 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2006 14:28:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gondolin.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@75.3.42.185 with login) by smtp111.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jul 2006 14:28:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7404AD for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:28:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from gondolin.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3bIi09rYg9pV for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:28:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by gondolin.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6720D93 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:28:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <44CE1394.9000601@mikestammer.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:28:36 -0500 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ssh problems ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:28:54 -0000 Kevin Brick wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to ssh to a remote linux PC using the command: > > ssh kbX@ssh.abc.org -l kb5 -v > > doing this presents me with an error below : > > OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003 > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Applying options for * > debug1: Connecting to ssh.sanger.ac.uk [193.62.203.55] port 22. > debug1: connect to address 193.62.203.55 port 22: Connection refused > debug1: Connecting to ssh.sanger.ac.uk [193.62.203.54] port 22. > debug1: connect to address 193.62.203.54 port 22: Connection refused > ssh: connect to host ssh.sanger.ac.uk port 22: Connection refused > > I've tried also to connect to a nother host (which I know works) with > similar results. I'm a bit of a newbie to this whole ssh thing, so I'm not > sure if I should check for conflicts on port 22, or something like that ? > I've already disabled my local firewall with no luck, but was wondering if > the problem could be the overall network firewall blocking my access ? > > Thanks for any help ... i just sshed to ssh.sanger.ac.uk and it connected just fine, so it looks like you have something going on thats blocking access to the machine in question. Of course I couldnt connect, but i had to add the host to my known hosts and it asked me for a PW, etc. If you are at work, there is most likely a firewall in place blocking outbound access on everything but a very few select ports (port 80, etc). can we get some more details on your setup?