SSHD Strangeness

[Robison, Dave]

is your host ip denied by /etc/hosts.allow?

On 04/08/2011 12:22, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> I've never seen this before, but when ssh'ing to my server today, I
> got:
>
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed
>
> I was able to log in using my vendors KVM access, and didn't see
> anything particularly odd. I hadn't changed anything. I restarted
> sshd, but that didn't help.
>
> The log files show hundreds of 'login failures' from the script
> kiddies, but that is typical.
>
> Trying again a couple of hours later, and I can ssh just fine. No
> changes, nothing.
>
> Has anyone seen this, or knows what is going on?
>
> Thanks
> Scott


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