Locked out of SSH by IP, what to check. 1

[nerbonne]

Hi,

I have 5 linux servers, and on one of them, my home IP address is blocked because I cannot connect thru SSH. Other computers using other IP's can. I checked iptables but there are no rules there. I have no firewalls running that I know of. I was trying a program that connected hundreds of times, so it's possible that my home IP got blocked because it may have been seen as a brute force attack.

If it's not a iptables rule, what else can I check?

 

[hoinz]

maybe /etc/hosts.allow ?

 

[Annihilannic]

/etc/security/access.conf perhaps? What distribution?

Annihilannic.

 

[nerbonne]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 5)

Thanks, I'll check those two files.

 

[nerbonne]

Yeah, it was hosts.allow Thanks.