ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

[Juraj Lutter]

mouss wrote:
>
> I tried with secureCRT and with openssh from a netbsd, debian and 
> centos boxes. same error.
> I googled for the error, and it seems popular!
> - I don't think it's an /etc/host* issue, as I was connected to the 
> box multiple times (and I tried from multiple IPs).
> - I tried from a vmware hosts with no keys, just to make sure it's not 
> a key issue.
>
> could this be a dns issue? the host is running a "caching" bind. I 
> would prefer not to disable dns lookup, but if this causes trouble...


This seems to be more a /etc/hosts.allow issue.