[ubuntu-za] Advice troubleshooting ssh over the net

[Wayne Abroue]

Who are you using as ISP?
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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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