possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

[Tim]

On Sun, 2012-08-12 at 13:46 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> "connection refused" means nothing else than connection
> refused and that can be a outgoing firewall, firewall on the
> remote-side and any filter/networking component between the machines

You should get a different error message for when connection can't be
made due to firewall ignoring traffic, or trying the wrong address, or
no server listening.  A no route to host type of error.

Firewalls actually refusing/denying a connection, rather than ignoring
it, or servers actually refusing to allow the connection, ought to
produce a refusal error message.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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