Hi all, Hopefully this is acceptable here ... I have a VPS (with a well-known NZ provider) which I can ping, but can't ssh to. tcptraceroute stops a couple of hops in (I think the first to not respond is our immediate ISP's immediate upstream). From a different house/ISP, I can connect fine, and from here, I can connect to a different VPS (same provider, different network block) I'm reasonably confident it's not firewall, partly from extensive testing, and partly because the same behaviour is shown when running tcptraceroute to the gateways of the respective VPS. Any thoughts? The fact that the traces make it part way suggest to me that it's a routing problem, but then how does ping work? I could include tcptraceroute results, but is it considered ok to reveal ISPs etc? My email probably reveals it all anyway, of course ... :-) Cheers, Richard