Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 17:57:03 -0700 From: Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@baywinds.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sshd refuses connections until I restart the daemon Message-ID: <d438feda-01ee-2878-c19e-107e48d17291@baywinds.org> In-Reply-To: <CAKS%2Bcu2aSY4qnoOVpNs-T6bELBpf5eJAG4GihRkzEEDOqkAXhA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKS%2Bcu2aSY4qnoOVpNs-T6bELBpf5eJAG4GihRkzEEDOqkAXhA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/09/2018 04:01 PM, Patrick McMunn wrote: > I sometimes access my FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p9 box from my laptop via ssh. > Sometimes I can connect, but sometimes I get the message "ssh: connect to > host 192.168.0.71 port 22: Connection refused". But if I walk over to the > computer and manually restart the sshd daemon, I can then go back to my > laptop and successfully ssh into the FreeBSD box. Why would it stop > accepting ssh connections until restarting the daemon, and how can I fix > this from recurring? > Patrick, There are a couple of entries that could be in sshd_config that might create this effect: MaxSessions: 10 is default; other values do interesting things MaxStartups: default is 10:30:100; see the man page for sshd_config as it get's a wee touch detailed Regards
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