Sshd problem

[Olivier Nicole]

> Changed ip address to public address and made the box live so to speak.
> Ever since the ip was changed i am unable to ssh into the box , logs
> show error : Fatal timeout before authentication could occur.

Did you, by any chance, used the IP from a previous box that was
already configured with SSH server?

In that case your ssh client would have the public key for the old
server in it's table of known hosts, and would find a missmatch with
the public key of the new server.

Olivier