Prologue Last week I had the following mortifying experience: I tried to ssh into my box hosted at RackSpace and nothing happened. It simply hung, and never prompted me for my password. Commence panic. I determined that port 22 was, in fact, open, and I was connecting to the machine at some point. nc -zw3 monicalent.com 22 Connection to monicalent.com 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded! telnet monicalent.com 22 Trying 198.