Putty error: Server unexpectedly closed network connection

[Bill Horne]

Chris Ball wrote:

>>>On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:30:46, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> said:
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>   > 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.
>  
>
If anyone reading this has an IP address with valid RDNS, please try to 
access billhorne.homelinux.org via ssh, and let me know if you get a 
"login as:"  prompt.

TIA.

Bill

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