YDL 3.0 on iMac: ssh Connection refused

[Longman, Bill]

This sounds like you've got a firewall running.

Try:

# service iptables stop

and see if that doesn't clear it up.

> Downloaded and installed YDL 3.0 on an iMac Blueberry.
> Everything is fine so far except that ssh from any
> external machine fails with: Connection refused.
> (Tried so far with a Mac G4 (9.2.1) and a SuSE Linux
> 8.2, and both failed.)
> 
> From the iMac itself, tried
>    ssh localhost -l valid_user_name
> and it worked fine.
> 
> Also from the iMac "telnet localhost 22" returned:
>    Trying 127.0.0.1...
>    Connected to localhost.
>    Escape character is...
>    SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.5p1
> and then sending a carriage return returns:
>    Protocol mismatch.
>    Connection closed by foreign host.
> as one would expect.
> 
> As expected, ps shows that sshd is running (with no
> command line params).
> 
> Tried uncommenting the default params in
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but no success there.
> 
> NEW RESULTS:  telnet behaves in exactly the same way.
> When telnet is enabled in xinetd, I can telnet into
> localhost from the iMac itself, but neither of the
> other two mabhines can connect - same message:
> Connection refused.
> 
> This must be something simple I have overlooked, but
> none of the listings here or on the openssh list have
> had any suggestions other than to make sure sshd is
> running.
> 
> 
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