Connection Refused (gentoo)

[Gediminas]

Hello,
I have got server running gentoo and when I try to connect to SSH (port 22) using putty, I get error 'Connection refused' (ping works without problems). I tried to stop iptables

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

but it doesn't help.
Any solutions?
Thanks a lot for answers, because I really need to fix that problem tomorrow

[dberkholz]

Hello,
I have got server running gentoo and when I try to connect to SSH (port 22) using putty, I get error 'Connection refused' (ping works without problems). I tried to stop iptables

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

but it doesn't help.
Any solutions?
Thanks a lot for answers, because I really need to fix that problem tomorrow

Do you have sshd running? Also you might want to run the iptables commands to list active filters and drop all filters.

[dxqcanada]

First check to see if sshd is listening on port 22:

# netstat -plt

... if not then start the daemon

# /etc/init.d/sshd start

If sshd is listening on port 22 ... then you will need to check the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file for a hint.

[Gediminas]

That problem isn't only with SSH. Server refuses all connections from outside - HTTP, SSH and so on. I created /etc/hosts.allow and wrote "ALL:ALL, but it doesn't work. Also I droped all filters. And it doesn't work too

[FireArrow]

Make sure you don't have ALL:ALL in /etc/hosts.deny. That would overrule the hosts.allow (I found out the hard way :P )