title: PuTTY Cannot connect to a friend's server even though not blacklisted
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  <p>I know there are a LOT of similar questions to this one, but they all seem to be unanswered or their answers do not solve the problem for me.</p>
  
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  <p>My friend is hosting a server from home and I have been helping him to run a game server on it. I was able to connect using PuTTY, WinSCP and the game we were hosting, but due to a former admin logging in without permission, my IP was accidentally blacklisted from the server. Now I get timed out whenever I try to connect to the server with either of the programs mentioned above. </p>
  
  <p>My friend, who is hosting the server from home, told me that my IP does not appear on the blacklist and nor does any other IP address in our country. </p>
  
  <p>This is not caused by the game's banning system because I cannot even access the server console through PuTTY.</p>