ssh_exchange_identification

[Łukasz Jagiełło]

2008/6/20 Rahul Tidke <rahul at excelize.com>:
> My ssh is not working today; every time I try to login to our web server I
> get following error message. I tried to login using both remote server host
> name and IP address, I observed that IP address of our web server has been
> changed so I removed all the previous entries for the web server in my
> /root/.ssh/known_hosts file and tried once again, but still getting the same
> error message. What could be the possible reason behind this error message?
> Is it my configuration or remote web server configuration that is causing
> the problem?
>
> ssh_exchange_identification : Connection closed by remote host
>
> What is the meaning of this error, I could not find this on SSH mailing list
> and documentation. Could not get satisfactory answer form Google search
> also.

Your IP isn't at allow list (/etc/hosts.allow) for SSHD.

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