possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/12/2012 03:50 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> I send the result with a bit of "oh, that's interesting" though I wish I understood ...
>
> +++
> Paul at krazy ~
> $ ssh localhost
> ssh: connect to lost localhost port 22: Connection refused
> Paul at krazy ~
> +++
>
> 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? 

Yes, you should be able to ssh to yourself just like you should be able to ping yourself.

I'd be checking krazy to see why the ssh daemon isn't running.  It surly isn't a Fedora issue.

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