[wplug] Strange SSH error

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue Dec 27 11:05:52 EST 2005


Ben Beige <dariuscardren at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've got a friend that is getting this error that if bfuddling me,
> most of the info I found googling it seems irelavent, he was away for
> the weekend then when he tried to SSH into a shell account of his on
> betterbox.net he was getting this error "ssh_exchange_identification:
> Connection closed by remote host", I thought it might be somethign on
> his end (well was hoping) like a cropupted public key or something.

That's a pretty general error that could mean almost anything.

Run ssh with -v (or multiple -v) to get more detailed messages.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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