Re: 2010.2 networking issue

David Guntner <davidg-1boXBf7wef/[email protected]> Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:09:11 -0800
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Phil Savoie grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> On 11/27/2011 08:11 PM, David Guntner wrote:
>> Did a clean install of the 2010 Spring install on a friend's computer,=

>> but now having an really weird networking issue.  It won't allow an
>> incoming ssh connection.  From a shell prompt, I can do a "ssh
>> 127.0.0.1" and "ssh 192.168.1.101" (for the internal net IP address) a=
nd
>> it works just fine.  However, trying to ssh to the machine from anothe=
r
>> machine on the local home network goes nowhere - it just times out.  I=

>> can ping the windows box on the network from the Linux box, but can't =
go
>> the other direction - again, doing a ping of the Linux box from the
>> Windows box just times out.
>>
>> What the heck am I missing?  It's clearly able to talk out to the
>> network, but it doesn't seem to be too interested in listening to the
>> network.  Both /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny are empty, so it's=

>> not that getting in the way....
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Is the firewall turned on by default?

I'll check that later today when my friend has returned home and can
look for me.  I'm pretty sure the firewall would be turned on (be
running) by default, but doesn't it need rules to start blocking someone?=


            --Dave



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