openssh server remote access

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:48:38 +0300, Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser at gmail.com>
wrote:

>I think it was something like "ssh: connect to host .... port 22:
>Connection refused" It will take me a little while to get the same error
>message again.

"Connection refused" and even "Connection actively refused" are messages that
confused me ages ago and are still in use...

What a human reading it understands is that the target received the call and
"refused" to take it for some reason.

But in actual fact it means the the IP address is not available (because it is
not on the same subnet for instance) or that there is noone listening on that
port...

The error should have been one of:

"Cannot reach server address"
or
"Server not responding to call at port 22"


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden