[ale] what am I missing

[Matt Rideout]

Geoffrey wrote, On 10/26/2009 03:13 PM:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>   
>> run ssh -v to get more data fromthe ssh client end.
>>     
>
> Yeah, tried that, wasn't much help:
>
> ssh  -v 192.168.1.72
> OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> debug1: Applying options for *
> debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.72 [192.168.1.72] port 22.
> debug1: connect to address 192.168.1.72 port 22: Connection timed out
> ssh: connect to host 192.168.1.72 port 22: Connection timed out
>
>   
>> On laptop check var/log/secure
>>     
>
> There's a /var/log/security.log, no help there.  There's also a 
> /var/log/security/ directory.  No help there either.
>
> This is so weird as my primary box is the same distro, never encountered 
> this issue.
>   
See if the laptop can SSH to itself @ 192.168.1.72. If not, try 127.0.0.1.