RE: [cobalt-users] Portsentry blocking port 22

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<snip>
> Tried that. It says it's starting SSHD. Then, when I try to 
> connect with
> SSH, it STILL blocks me out! Do I have to restart Portsentry too?
> 
> There's a growing list of IPs that our ISP uses that are 
> becoming blocked by
> Portsentry, so a lot of times when I connect to the net 
> through our ADSL
> connection, I find the server is invisible to us. To rectify 
> this, do I just
> remove the IPs from hosts.deny?
</snip>

Hmm, doesn't sound too good, after doing the ssh start, check it IS running with:
ps -ax | grep [s]shd
[thanks tim, handy hint that!]

It may be that ssh isnt starting properly. Then, YES do a restart of portsentry with:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/portsentry restart

To remove entries from portsentry, you need to remove from /etc/hosts.deny AND also remove the blocked route from your routing table.
Type:
route -n
and it will show you the blocked IPs as well as the IPs your RaQ v-sites use. Just remove the ones you don't want to block anymore with
route del IP.IP.IP.IP

Then try it again.

Regards,

Andy
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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