The sshd service is only listening on the loopback device after a system reboot when the ListenAddress config option is used

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When the sshd service is configured with one or more addresses using the ListenAddress directive, after a system reboot the service is only listening on the loopback device.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • OpenSSH

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