[ubuntu-za] Advice troubleshooting ssh over the net

[Anton May]

He was at his office, I suspect their FW isn't allowing port 22 out from
the office.

Atnon

On 1 August 2017 at 10:36, chesedo <pehshelchesed at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you trying to connect (test) to the WAN's IP from within the network
> (while from external, ie Anton, is successful)?
>
> Pieter
>
> On 31/07/2017 16:03, Wesley Werner wrote:
>
> On Afrihost ADSL Wayne. Anton has helped prove that the port is indeed
> open and outward facing. In fact he was able to initiate a connection to my
> server's ssh port. Since I can't connect through the WAN IP, I will have to
> poke around some more.
>
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Wayne Abroue <plettpc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Who are you using as ISP?
>> Cell companies block incoming by default.
>>
>> Wayne A
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sent you a google hangouts request. Going to be easier
>>>
>>> On 31 July 2017 at 14:29, Wesley Werner <wesley.werner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Anton, Yes I am using the WAN IP address.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Wesley
>>>>>
>>>>> Although you have stated that you have done the port forwarding, I
>>>>> suspect somewhere is a misconfig. Let's first eliminate DNS, have you tried
>>>>> to ssh via the WAN IP address?
>>>>>
>>>>> Anton
>>>>>
>>>>> On 31 July 2017 at 14:13, Wesley Werner <wesley.werner at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi folks. Is everyone good?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am traveling outside the country for business soon and thought it
>>>>>> nice to remotely administer my headless server at home. I only need ssh
>>>>>> access.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) Ubuntu 16.04 that gets assigned a static IP on my LAN
>>>>>> 2) set up SSH access using public key authentication (no password
>>>>>> access)
>>>>>> 3) set up the no-ip dynamic dns service
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can confirm:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1) ssh to the server from two other machines on my LAN works
>>>>>> 2) the no-ip service runs and updates my IP. I can see syslog
>>>>>> indicate the IP update, and verify this on the no-ip website dashboard,
>>>>>> which reflects my router's IP
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot ssh into the server using the no-ip domain name or my
>>>>>> external IP address. I figured since ssh works on the LAN I can rule out
>>>>>> the Ubuntu firewall, so I focused my attention to the router NAT:
>>>>>> I added a port forward setting on my router for ssh port 22, pointing
>>>>>> it to my server's static IP on the LAN (this guide provided the steps for
>>>>>> my router model [1]). This did not change anything, I still cannot ssh to
>>>>>> my server. I used a couple online port checkers that say port 22 is open.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The message I get is: ssh: connect to host port 22: Connection timed
>>>>>> out
>>>>>>
>>>>>> any tips in the right direction will be appreciated :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wes
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1]: https://portforward.com/huawei/hg532f/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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