I was able to SSH into my VPS earlier today, and made no major changes. However now when I attempt to SSH into my VPS it doesn't even ask me for my password it just times out.
If I open the serial console and attempt to SSH via localhost it works fine. I have also pinged my hostname and ip address and both of these show the server is up.
Does anyone know what could be causing this?
Best Answer
Things to check:
traceroute <ip>
dig <hostname>
iptables --list
(test ssh with your client firewall disabled as well)/etc/init.d/sshd restart
(or whatever is appropriate for your distro)Beyond those issues there could be a few more, including errors or outages at the VPS provider.