Putty error: Server unexpectedly closed network connection

[Chris Ball]

>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:30:46, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> said:

   > Neither one: if I telnet to port 22, it times out after about 8
   > seconds, with the message "Connection to host lost". You may verify
   > this by trying billhorne.homelinux.org.

Have you investigated the Google hits that blame sshd's UseDNS
directive?  That seems likely to be the problem here.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at mrao.cam.ac.uk>    <http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~cjb/>