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How to fix kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset

Posted on June 17, 2025

At first I thought Ansible was screwing up my ssh, but now after manually sshing and configuring my server, I find that I am still running into this SSH error. Why is it happening and what can I do to fix it?

I’m running AlmaLinux 9.



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