Connection Refused (gentoo)

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

Code:

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/etc/init.d/iptables stop

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

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Originally Posted by 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

Code:

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/etc/init.d/iptables stop

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

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

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

Code:

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# netstat -plt

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... if not then start the daemon

Code:

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# /etc/init.d/sshd start

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

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 :confused:

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 )