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I have a very simple Ubuntu server with a couple of git repos on it, nothing special.

At home I used a Windows PC, and use the PuTTY program to interact with the server. At work however I have a Mac, and using ssh to login to the server I am getting a timeout message each time.

I know the server is up and running, because I am able to access it via a built in console function on my hosting website (Digital Ocean).

Example:

MacBook-Pro: documents jmr$ ssh jmr@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
ssh: connect to host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 22: Operation timed out

I've searched around quite a bit for solutions to this specific issue but have yet to find anything that addresses this. Any help is appreciated, thanks a lot!

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Make sure your port is open at work! Some companies block certain ports, and port 22 would be a great first candidate!

You can test that with telnet for example:

telnet you.rse.rve.rip 22

You could also use portquiz.net :

$telnet portquiz.net 22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4

If your request is timing out too than your port is most probably being blocked.

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  • Doing that also resulted in a timeout... I think I should talk to someone here at work to determine if that is what is happening.
    – JMRboosties
    Mar 17, 2014 at 21:22
  • You can also use portquiz.net, I'll edit the answer to reflect that.
    – nana
    Mar 17, 2014 at 21:25
  • What am I looking for exactly with portquiz? My output looked like this: telnet portquiz.net 22 Trying IP ADDRESS WHICH ISNT MINE BUT IM UNSURE IF ITS SENSITIVE SO IM REMOVING IT... Connected to portquiz.net. Escape character is '^]'. SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.0p1 Debian-4
    – JMRboosties
    Mar 17, 2014 at 21:29
  • Then it's not a port issue ;) At least not if you try to reach portquiz.net
    – nana
    Mar 17, 2014 at 21:32
  • Can you ping your server from work?
    – nana
    Mar 17, 2014 at 21:34

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