On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Homer Sipes wrote:

> Hi does anyone use portsentry? mine works just fine and i tested it out

Yes.

> from a friends box. i scanned my box and like it's supposed to, it
> blocks his host. however, i removed the porstsentry.blocked.tcp file and
> tried to ssh in my box from his and i get:
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

I am guessing that the portsentry is configured to listen for port 22. (So
your ssh client doesn't receive any ssh server's identification.)

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/