Where are the VPS instances housed.. on a SAN, or on local server hard drives? does arpnetworks do ssh rate limiting? I noticed if I ssh rapidly I'll get blocked for a little bit i've observed that too I have the same problem, sometimes should be fine.. the only reason why i noticed is because i was setting the same feature up my self in packetfilter, but looks like I don't need to now :) thanks for the confirmation anoek: From a few days ago in IRC, the rate limiting is "> 10 syn's per minute to 22/tcp and the ip is blocked for 60 seconds," anoek: yes, ARP rate limits inbound SSH connections. Hmm, the block seems to effect me weirdly -- everytime I get a timeout (for example due to a local wifi disconnect) and then try to reconnect to my server I have to wait out the 60 seconds why on earth would a local wifi disconnect-type timeout result in my local ssh client sending enough syns to trigger the block Cool, thanks for the info plett and jpalmer up_the_irons: thanks for mounting the new ISO image jpalmer: np