On Thursday 24 February 2011 21:51:56 dhk wrote:

> Thanks, but I've tried that.  ssh'ing to the hostname and loopback
> address work.  However, when I go out to the WAN it doesn't.  So I can't
> ssh user@123.123.123.123 even though I have port 22 open on the switch
> for my ip.

Just to state the obvious, have your tried something like:

$ nc -v -z 123.123.123.123 22
123.123.123.123 (ssh) open

from a WAN client to make sure that the port is open?
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Regards,
Mick