Oops, spoke too soon! Looks like I'm in the /etc/hosts.deny file again. Could you please remove my IP address from there again ()? Apparently, I had a rogue autossh session which was constantly connecting. I just killed the process. Sorry! And thanks. > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert ) > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:07:56 -0700 > > I'm glad you found out the problem. > > It is not a script -- it was autossh. And I used it wrong just once by > accident. (I vow never to use autossh when logging into shell.sonic.net !) > The problem was that I autossh'd to shell.sonic.net, then ssh'd from there > back to my machine to the GNU screen session that was doing the autossh! > So, it looped forever, making thousands of connections to port 22 before I > could stop it. > > In any case, I'll try my best to keep out of your /etc/hosts.deny file ;-).