[ubuntu-za] Advice troubleshooting ssh over the net

[Wesley Werner]

My home is my office :)

Anyway thank you Anton for the assistance! You proved the port is open and
listening, and I am now able to using JuiceSSH on Android from a mobile
connection. This is 100%.

Thanks again 👍

On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Anton May <antonmay at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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