On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 07:16:12 AM -0500, John Aldrich wrote: > How is this box connected to the outside world? Have there been ANY > networking changes wrt the internet connection? none whatsoever. The only hardware thing that is changed (sorry for forgetting this in the first message, but I'm almost sure is irrelevant) is the computer itself. Ubuntu, on which sshd worked fine, was running on a very old computer. When he got a new computer, I went there last Monday , installed F16, we carried the old PC to the dumpster (nothing was worth recovering, power supply and other parts were almost falling apart...), went back home and found the sshd problem. But internet connectivity was and remains the same: ADSL modem, attached to the PC via Ethernet. Every other service used by my friend works (email, Web, ftp, streaming...) telnet his.ip.address 22 times out Tomorrow I'll be back at his place and try the other tests suggested, those to be run on his machine. Thanks, Marco -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org