I then did: service sshd restart
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Have you restarted the ssh daemon after changing the config file?
Ooops, I really need to not post to the mailing list when I am tired.
My second question still stands, Also, have you run nmap on your host to verify that the port is open?
No, but I might be a dork.
I was editing /etc/ssh/ssh_config and it looks like I wanted to edit / etc/ssh/sshd_config. I dont know if now I should put ssh_config back to its defaults or not. I need to query that.
Also, have you restarted the iptables service after changing the firewall rules?
I restarted the whole server actually.
-ML