On Sat, September 15, 2012 7:44 am, Ken Smith wrote: > Which suggests that there is something about A you need to know more > about. As said earlier what happens if you run > > telnet ip-of-a whatever-port-ssh-is -on--normally-22 I had already answered to this: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2012-September/129092.html If I use port 22 instead of the one sshd is listening on, I get a normal "telnet: connect to address ip-of-a: Connection refused" Marco