On Thu 23 Jul 2009 14:40:03 NZST +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: > Sometime in the last few months Hostgator.com upgraded their firewall so > that if too many connections from the same ip address get opened within > a small period of time, the ip gets blocked temporarily for between 2 > and 30 minutes.
> Does anyone know if it's possible to limit the number of outgoing > simultaneous ssh connections Yes, put IP packet filter rules into place. That'll then give you errors, but won't get you locked out. Or use one of the other good suggestions. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.