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So I am trying to get ssh working on my server. I can connect on my local network with the local ip address of the server perfectly fine. When I try to connect remotely (through a domain name that I set-up for the server, which I know works) I get this connection refused error:

ssh: connect to host bahhudson.mine.nu port 22: Connection refused

From the research I have done into the problem it looks like something is going wrong with my router. I have configured port-forwarding, but that's the only think I can think is causing the "Connection Refused" error... My router is a WRT120N and I have configured it for port-forwarding based on Portforward.com, which seems somewhat outdated since some of those images are not exactly like what my router settings look like, but I have tried multiple ways for setting the portforwarding up, and I know that forwarding for port 80 works because my server has HTTP access which is working...

Also VPN access was getting blocked in what I believe to be a similar way, so the solution to the SSH port 22 being blocked might also be similar to that of the VPN being blocked as well.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Your ISP may block connections to port 22 (nothing you or your router can do about it). Just set SSHd to run on a different port, e.g. 2222.

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, change Port 22 to Port 2222 and then sudo service ssh restart. Port forward 2222 (or whatever), and try again.

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I still get the same connection refused error (22 when I don't specify a port when using ssh and 2222 when I use -p 222). I put incoming port 22 to forward to 2222 and changed the port to 2222 in sshd_config. Am I leaving out something? – Ben Hudson May 31 '12 at 1:35
Just try this: Incoming 2222 on router has to forward to 2222 (with port 2222 set in sshd_config). – izx May 31 '12 at 1:45
Looks like that was it! Thanks! – Ben Hudson May 31 '12 at 4:00

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