ssh problems

[Mike Hoy]

I checked with my ISP and the lady said they didn't block port 22. But
then again she did seem kinda clueless. Turns out qwest outsources to
the Phillipines :(

Do I need to be outside my home network for this to work using the IP
address specified by my ISP?



On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon November 17 2008 07:44:11 pm Mike Hoy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just set up ssh server on this computer and was able to connect like
>> this:
>>
>> ssh localhost
>>
>> and from my laptop connected to the same router like this
>>
>> ssh username at 192.168.1.100
>>
>> Now I take it that I'm going to need my real ip address so I tried
>> that and I got
>>
>> ssh: connect to host IP_ADDRESS port 22: Connection refused
>>
>> I thought it may have something to do with my router so I forwarded
>> port 22 to this machine and same error. Any thoughts as to what's
>> going on? I need to be able to connect to this machine from work
>> tomorrow.
>
> Hi MIke,
>
> There are two problems most likely, imo... DHCP is giving you a new ip address
> (either on the router or your ISP) or that our ISP simply does not allow you
> to connect to port 22... This is common on port 80 but i am not so sure on
> 22.
>
> try doing a traceroute on it, and when the trace dies, do an nslookup on that
> site and see if that's one of your ISP's then call them up and bitch em out.
>
> if you think it may be a dhcp problem try a dynamic dns service like
> dyndns.org (I use it quite wonderfully, with a package called ddclient in
> debian apt) If you don't have a domain name on your system this will provide
> you with a free *.dyndns.org domain name, which again, quite nice
>
> If these don't work for you, someone else will help :)
>
> ~Ryan
>
>
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
> Ryan Rix
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Mike Hoy