on 9/14/2012 8:26 AM m.roth at 5-cent.us 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