possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 8/12/2012 12:45 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 08/12/2012 03:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>> Thanks for the prompt reply. I got the same message for telnet as I did for ssh and scp. And, as I re-read my email, I managed to not report that message (I actually did, but that was before I got a log message and it apparently got wiped out when I reworded from "nothing in /var/log/messages" to "I got something".
>>
>> I just powered my F16 box back on and did a ssh/telnet/scp. The message is
>>
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>> [ssh,scp,telnet]: connect to host krazy port 22: Connection refused
>> +++
> That normally means that the port is open on the remote side (krazy being your cygwin host) but that the server is not running.
>
> If you open a Cygwin terminal on krazy....what do you get when you type....
>
> ssh localhost
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>
Ed:

I send the result with a bit of "oh, that's interesting" though I wish I 
understood ...

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Paul at krazy ~
$ ssh localhost
ssh: connect to lost localhost port 22: Connection refused
Paul at krazy ~
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My memory of all this sort of stuff is that I should be able to ssh from 
myself to myself on any machine. My sense is that something has happened 
on the Cygwin and/or Windows end which has denied me the necessary 
self-referential loop from me to me?

Paul