On Friday 14 September 2012 16:32:18 Scott Silva wrote: > on 9/14/2012 8:26 AM m.roth@xxxxxxxxx spake the > > following: > > M. Fioretti wrote: > >> I have accounts on two Centos servers, A and B, each hosted on a > >> remote VPS by a different provider/datacenter. > >> > >> Until yesterday night, I could connect without problems via SSH > >> to both servers from my home Fedora 16 desktop. > >> > >> Yesterday I completed (fingers crossed) the switch to a > >> different ADSL provider. From the moment I turned on the modem > >> on the new ADSL line, I became unable to ssh into server A. All > >> attempts abort with this message: > >> > >> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > > > <snip> > > This would be obnoxious, but have you checked with your ADSL > > provider, to see if they're blocking ssh traffic? > > > > mark > > Also. Could the server A have a firewall that had allow ranges for > your original ip range? Or denyhosts... something like that >From memory the only time I've seen that error message was due to entries in the /etc/hosts.allow file specifying what IP addresses are allowed ssh in. Changing your ISP would change your address. Tony > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos